Post by Steve Troughton-Smith

Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

We’re at the point where you can hand ChatGPT an unknown iOS rootfs archive and it will get it booting in an emulator in half an hour. All those dumped prototype or internal iPhone firmwares you see everywhere can now be explored live. From a preservation perspective, this is very exciting

QEMU booted to SpringBoard’s slide to unlock screen

2026-11-01 23:34 UTC · Public

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Steve Troughton-Smith @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

So anyway here’s a quick look at a version of the multitasking UI for iOS 4.0 that got scrapped. Apple didn’t move to a cards based UI until a much later version of iPadOS

2026-11-02 00:02 UTC · Public

Chris Silverman 🌻 @csilverman@mastodon.social

@stroughtonsmith This is so cool.

2026-11-02 00:04 UTC · Public