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IT Home reported on November 14 that Ammaar Reshi, head of product and design for Google AI Studio, posted a video on X on November 12 demonstrating Windows 11 running on Apple's first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, and open-sourced the WindowsiOS project on GitHub.
Reshi said he developed the WindowsiOS project with the help of Google's Gemini 4 Carbon model. It runs a Windows 11 on Arm 24H2 system image on the iPhone Duo in a virtual machine and supports touch input.
In the demonstration, when the iPhone Duo is half-folded, the upper screen displays the system interface while the lower screen provides a virtual keyboard and multitouch trackpad, giving it the form of a mini laptop. Through devices such as a virtual network adapter and audio device, the project lets Windows use the phone's network connection, speakers and microphone.
Reshi said the device does not need to be jailbroken. The approach uses software techniques including just-in-time compilation and does not require replacing the original iOS system. The project also claims to support Microsoft's Prism translation layer, which may allow some traditional Windows applications to run, but it does not guarantee compatibility with all software and games.
For ordinary users, however, this open-source project has a relatively high technical barrier: deployment requires a Mac with an Apple chip, development tools and a Windows ARM image. Its optimization scripts also disable Defender real-time protection and background Windows Update services, among other things.
IT Home provides the reference link below.
Click here to visit the WindowsiOS project on GitHub.
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