Your touch Mac in iPad.
Run macOS GUI applications in your jailbroken iPad/iPhone. Demo video:
Features:
- Touch Gestures:
- Scroll
- hold to right click
- Drag to resize/move window and move files
- Drag to select text
- Double tap to maximize window
- Two fingers zoom and rotate
- Two fingers tap to right click
- Two fingers double tap zoom view
- Two fingers hold and drag to share files to iOS
- Three fingers mission control, swipe desktops and App Expose
- Share files and clipboard between iOS and macPad
- Touch screen as trackpad
- Native CPU and GPU driver without any performance lost
- Geekbench 6 CPU 2293 single-core score, 8156 multi-score score in my iPad Pro m1
- Geekbench 6 GPU 32359 score in my iPad Pro m1
- Hardware video encode/decode
- Virtual keyboard
- Two Retina HiDPI display modes (pixel-matched Standard and native-drawable Larger)
- Native WiFi/Bluetooth/Apple pencil/Screen mirror, etc. supports
- Window Mode:
- Run macOS applications like iOS native windows
- Auto resized window
- Auto popup new window
- Fixed size window
- Fullscreen Mode:
- Run macOS desktop in fullscreen
Starting up
Prepare macOS rootfs installation as per this link
build macPad in macOS:
# edit DEVICE_IP/DEVICE_PORT at the top of misc/build.sh to match your iPad/iPhone
bash misc/build.sh
# you can also build it on iOS
# bash misc/build_on_ios.sh
run macPad in your iPad/iPhone device:
sudo bash /var/jb/usr/macOS/bin/postinst.sh
# enter macOS bash environment
sudo bash /var/jb/usr/macOS/bin/run_bash.sh
Note
- Only test on iPad Pro m1 11-inch, iPadOS 16.3, dopamine jailbroken, macOS 13.4
- In theory, support all m-series and A18 jailbroken iPad/iPhone. But there are many hardcoded logics for my device's OS version currently
- Compared with VirtualMacOniPad, macPad uses native CPU and GPU drivers through chroot while VirtualBuddy uses hardware hypervirsor for CPU and mental2vulkan GPU translation (reims-vgpu) which loss some performances
- Compared with MacWSBootingGuide, it uses MTLSimDriver for GPU which has many graphic issues and performance problems while macPad uses native GPU drivers