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ITHome reported on November 9 that developer brunostjohn announced a successful native port of Apple's iPadOS 27.2 to the Nintendo Switch, with the Liquid Glass interface effect running on the device.
The developer said the system is not running through an emulator but directly on the Switch's NVIDIA Tegra X1 chip. Although some issues with the GPU driver still need to be fixed, the Liquid Glass effect is now rendering successfully and can even reach 60 FPS in some scenarios.
The developer also adjusted the iPadOS interface to address some system elements appearing too small, making the system more usable on the Switch's screen.
Regarding hardware compatibility, the developer said most of the Switch's hardware, including components such as the ambient light sensor, now works properly. Features that do not yet work properly mainly include USB 3.0, USB DisplayPort Alt Mode (video output through the dock), and deep sleep.
The developer estimates that the porting project is about 90% complete. The main tasks remaining are to improve the GPU driver, resolve issues with translating ARM64e instructions to ARM64, and fix the remaining hardware compatibility problems. The developer joked that they might get iPadOS 27.2 running perfectly on the Nintendo Switch before GTA 6 is released.