# 🎭 One phone, two souls — real iOS boots on a POCO, reboot = Android back

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/one-phone-two-souls-real-ios-boots-on-a-poco-reboot-android-back/327201>\
**Category:** Tutorials & Methods\
**Tags:** android, ios, operating-system, apple\
**Created:** [November 12, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/one-phone-two-souls-real-ios-boots-on-a-poco-reboot-android-back/327201 "2026-11-12T18:18:57Z")\
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### 🎭 One phone, two souls — real iOS boots on a POCO, reboot = Android back

HakiOS boots the actual unmodified Apple XNU kernel + iOS 16.5 user space on a Snapdragon phone — straight from RAM, nothing flashed, nothing overwritten

 ![one phone two souls](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/1/6/1647643a3f92e7640b6596eb0432501f128c1e90.jpeg)

not a theme · not an emulator · not a launcher — the real Apple kernel, on Android hardware

the [open-source project](https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en/guide) with its own UEFI loader, its own drivers, and [media coverage](https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20261023-hackios/) — the kernel source is public ([XNU](https://github.com/oosexgang/hakios-xnu-kernel), APSL 2.0), the iOS user space comes from your own restore image

```plaintext
  [POCO X5 Pro] ──▶ [fastboot boot] ──▶ [iOS 16.5 · in RAM]
   unlocked BL one command lock screen · apps
   spare phone nothing flashed Wi-Fi · cameras

```

── 🎭 two costumes ──

| 🤖 **the day job — Android** | 🍎 **the RAM ghost — iOS 16.5** |
| --- | --- |
| untouched: nothing is flashed, ever | real XNU kernel + real iOS user space |
| a restart hands the phone straight back | from **your own iPhone X restore image** — 0 Apple files in the repos |
| stays your daily driver | lock screen · home · stock apps · Wi-Fi · cameras · speakers · SSH |

── 🪞 the fitting rooms ──

| room | verdict |
| --- | --- |
| ✅ **works** | touch · multitouch · Wi-Fi · 8 cores · cameras · speakers · mic · vibration · battery read · Sileo + SSH |
| 🟡 **partly** | cellular (modem boots, no network yet) · Metal draws the window server at ~110 fps swipes — fast, not 120 |
| ⛔ **by design, dead** | Bluetooth · charging while running · activation · Apple ID · iCloud · App Store |

── 🚪 three doors in ──

🖥 DOOR 1 — see it boot today, zero risk → QEMU on any computer: no Apple files, ~30 minutes, 12 GB disk ([QEMU guide](https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en/docs/getting-started/qemu))

📱 DOOR 2 — the POCO, from RAM → spare POCO X5 Pro, unlocked bootloader, your own IPSW, `fastboot boot` only — never flash, never dual-boot first ([phone guide](https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en/docs/getting-started/phone))

🔧 DOOR 3 — bring another phone → the [porting guide](https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en/docs/porting) starts from a device tree; an Infinix Hot 20 experiment already lives in the tree

── 🏷 the honest label ──

🔓 the bootloader must be unlocked — RAM boot ≠ no unlock: that’s warranty gone and brick risk real ([install docs](https://github.com/oosexgang/hakios-xnu-kernel/blob/main/docs/install.md))

⚖ the IPSW is a gray area — kernel public (APSL 2.0), user space licensed by Apple for Apple devices only: own the iPhone, own the risk ([LEGAL.md](https://github.com/oosexgang/hakios-xnu-kernel/blob/main/LEGAL.md))

🚨 every “HakiOS APK” is malware — no installer exists; the only source is [github.com/oosexgang](https://github.com/oosexgang) + [Telegram](https://t.me/oosexgangdevs)

📰 covered by Gigazine, Xataka and LockerGnome — but project-documented, no independent lab audit yet: treat it as brilliant research, not a daily driver

Two operating systems, one drawer, zero flash — the costume change is real.