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Re:Termux by DrNefario on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:54AM (#46855482)
I don't have an iPhone, but wouldn't UTM be better for that use case?
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Re:Termux by nasretdinov on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:24AM (#46855754)
UTM can't be installed from the App Store unfortunately, and without a developer license you are limited to 7 days for each successful on-device reinstall
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Re:Termux by dudewhocodes on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:37AM (#46855896)
Apple somewhat lifted the emulator restrictions on the App Store which means you can install UTM from here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id156...
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Re:Termux by nasretdinov on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:54AM (#46856064)
Nice, I must've missed that. Downloading it right away :)

Edit: well, it's also very slow unfortunately. I believe iPhone CPUs either don't support virtualisation or they don't expose it (edit #2: it's the latter). Either way, QEMU is struggling quite a bit, and due to it being a GUI it's even slower than what iSH could do

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