u/palamamba99

I’ve been building this with Claude and testing it lately, its been working great on my M1 ipad on ios 15 and 1st Gen iPad pro on ios 16. Except a few bugs its working very smoothly. Trying to hash them out now.

- Built in settings preferences for customization: Status Bar background, Seconds for time, and more.

- It has a built in Windowing function, but needs either of Aerial (built on 3.0) or Milkyway4 installed for windowing to work. I am also looking into incorporating Zetsu as a windowing engine.

- Fully functioning Status bar drop down menus with clipboard support, windowing like on Macos. Also fully functioning traffic lights

- Toggle for windowing: Opens new apps always in windowed mode

- Fit to Window (Under Window menu): Fit app windows wherever you like on the screen. Can be toggled on or off

Currently only confirmed to work on iPad’s. I tried it on my iphone x on ios 15 and due to how Status Bar is different there it doesn’t take effect.

If anyone is willing to test and report bugs, let me know!

Used this project to achieve it: https://github.com/nfzerox/VirtualMacOniPad

• Geekbench 6 was used to test the scores, and 8 cores were assigned during the test vs. 7 during this demonstration. 9GB RAM is assigned.
• Lightweight games and some 3D games work great, such as Slope in the video, but other games through Steam (TankiOnline) install and launch but suffer graphical errors and crash.
• Streaming videos/movies is very smooth. Can also use extended display to mirror full screen, and long duration videos play without issues. Personally this was a crucial for me since it essentially overrides the ipados15 limitation of showing black bars on sides during mirroring, and allows using Mac/ipad on full screen on external displays. It is possible to stream football matches in the VM and mirror it to the TV full screen and watch the whole game without freezes/crash.
• Bluetooth doesn’t work / can’t be turned on inside the VM, but it is possible to connect bluetooth devices to iPad first and it passes through to MacOS. Wifi works the same way. Magic keyboard attached to iPad works seamlessly like a MacOS trackpad, but things like 3 finger swipe don’t work. Keyboard shortcuts do work.
• Jailbroken via Dopamine on iPadOS 15.6.1