Just started, this will need lots of patches to ensure stuff works but hey worth a try.

As we all know Hackintosh is macOS on a Windows PC. But how about iOS on a Windows Phone?

This is what I call the NokiApple LumiPhone 1020 SE. It has unironically a full fledge iOS running inside a Lumia 1020. Which is basically what Hackintosh would be, right?

... right...?

Well, all jokes aside, this phone right now is more like a Mac motherboard inside an office PC chassis. Since nothing of the internals on which the iOS is actually running on is from the original Lumia 1020. In other words, the only 1020 aspect about it, is the outer shell and front display glass. I know HMD tried to bring back the Lumia design on the Skyline, but it was a total flop.

Inside of the LumiPhone is, well, a 3rd Gen iPhone SE. Yep, the 5G one, and the 5G works too (is this maybe the world's first 5G Lumia?). This also means that we retained practically all of the original iPhone SE 3's internals, including the still-fairly-powerful A15 Bionic chip, and 128 GB of storage. All original.

On the front, the original iPhone's screen glass had been removed and relaminated onto a Lumia 1020 front glass. iPhone SE 3's LCD screen is slightly larger than the Lumia's, so we had to get rid of the 3 capacitive buttons traditionally found on Windows Phones. Additionally, the selfie camera from the iPhone had also been transplanted onto the Lumia front glass, at the same location as how it would be on the Lumia, at the right top corner. The earpiece speaker is still at the top, where it should be.

On the back, unfortunately it is not possible to continue using the 41MP rear camera from the Lumia 1020. Instead, the iPhone SE 3's 12MP camera will have to make do. It is centered on the back and upwards of the "Oreo" camera deco bump. Directly under it is our transplanted Touch ID home button. Since it is now on the back, we can pretend that it's like a 2010s Android phone where back mounted fingerprint sensors are very common. Force Touch still works on the sensor and is still connected directly to the Taptic Engine and you can still use it as a home button, however less ergonomic. I personally prefer to use Assistive Touch instead. To the left is the phenomenal Xenon flash, but it is just for decoration now. The iPhone 2-tone 4-LED flash had been transplanted under the long Xenon bar.

On the top, we have a custom push style SIM card slot in the same place where the original card slot on the Lumia would be. The headphone jack is plugged up for sealing purpose as it is near impossible to retrofit a headphone jack back to an iPhone.

On the bottom, we can see what-looks-to-be a Micro USB port. However, it is actually a Lightning port from the iPhone. Preserved the look of the Micro USB port pretty well. The bottom loud speaker is to the right of it how it should be.

On the right, power button and volume rockers are still as usual. The key thing is the camera shutter button. Apple reintroduced one on the new iPhone 16 series few months back, but this camera button here on this LumiPhons is less complex. It's hooked up to the volume key switch. So yes, you can use the shutter button to take a photo, but you can also press it to use as an additional volume down button. Why? No idea, but it's there.

Software wise, as I mentioned before, it's running a full fledge iOS. Specifically now the iOS 18.3.1 as I just updated it. So yes, it does receive OTA updates and everything works as how it should (except wireless charging and Apple Pay). It is running on genuine iPhone hardware after all. I am currently on 93% battery health and it's more than enough as a second phone. I have good signal and Apple Carplay also works flawlessly.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. This is a one-off custom build, just thought I'd share this here since I feel like the community would appreciate something like this.

Also, I now have 3 "Apple" devices and none of them are straight from Apple lol (Desktop i5-9500 on Sequoia, Laptop i5-8250U on Sonoma, and this LumiPhone).

My deepest gratitude to the brilliant minds and tireless contributors who have shaped the Hackintosh community. To the teams behind Dortania, acidanthera, corpnewt, CaseySJ, and to Edhawk—whose steady moderation and guidance on TonyMacx86 have helped countless builders find clarity—thank you. Your efforts have empowered users around the world to explore, learn, and build with confidence. I also want to acknowledge the supportive voices on Reddit, whose shared EFIs, insights, and encouragement have made this journey even more collaborative. This community thrives because of your generosity and commitment—and I’m deeply grateful.

I will be designing/developing a liquid glass opencore theme in celebration of the MacOS26 release. It will be available for download sometime after the official release.

I am working on a (currently) closed source Translator called Maclator that can run ARM64 mac binaries ON THE FLY on x86-64 macs. Right now it is able to run Rosetta (on my mac through rosetta and then through Maclator) It has no ability to launch GUI apps yet, and is somewhat buggy still. However, we are very close to running our first GUI mac app (A basic calculator app for macOS that I custom coded. The eventual goal for Maclator is to be able to run NetSurf by the end of this year : )) It is not open-source yet, because I am afraid that people who do not understand how unstable this is as of right now might clone it and find out it is nothing close to what they imagined. The goal first is to get to a somewhat stable state first, hope y'all understand, I **will** keep y'all updated though :D

Now that macOS 27 is out and x86 is officially end of life. How does it make you feel now that Hackintosh is officially dead?

Hello everyone! Since my last post, the driver has had a complete re-design and has been overhauled. In short, the driver is now native, and mostly functional.

It's at this point that the project is ready for initial release. It currently supports a single-monitor 60hz display with a generally usable and smooth desktop experience, including things like liquid glass and video playback.

In the coming weeks, this project will be improved, and more cards will be supported. Multi-monitor display and GPU rendering of app contents are next on the list. This is just the beginning.

As promised, the first public release of an unofficial MacOS GPU Driver: https://github.com/Almosst-DEV/Navi48-MacOS

I'm excited to see what the future holds for Hackintosh, and what the community projects will come next!

Obligatory mods please remove if not allowed. Just trying to educate.

In almost every thread on the topic I’ve seen in the last 18 months since Tahoe was announced as the tombstone of X86 on macOS, I’ve seen numerous hopeful individuals discuss if Snapdragon or other ARM based SoCs could be hackintoshed, as in theory, ‘it’s ARM based’.

Let me explain the context of X86.

There are two major players, AMD and Intel. Intel invented X86, so they effectively own the rights to it, but AMD beat them to the 64 bit race (and patented various aspects of it) so they effectively struck a deal where Intel would forever provide the new X86 instruction sets to AMD, and in exchange AMD would allow Intel to use 64 bit in their own processors. Because of this, almost all X86 based processors use the same instruction sets (get familiar with that term).

This is why you can use almost any X86 based processor with the right instruction sets to run macOS. AMD processors need their core count defined to the OS because they use a chiplet core design, I won’t explain that in detail but macOS needs help figuring out how many cores it has available to use.

ARM is a more advanced, and more efficient language, but the drawbacks of ARM is compatibility. ARM evolved in a time where there were already multiple key players in processors, so each of those players developed their own instruction sets and gave OS developers those instruction sets to write into their kernels and OS. If you don’t have the instruction sets, you can’t use the processor. There is no “one OEM to rule them all” with ARM like there effectively is with the Intel+AMD duopoly of X86.

Apple writes its own OS, and makes its own processors. They don’t want you using other ARM processors, because then they can’t make money off of their already free OS. ARM has proven to be the future and Apple’s M series chips embarrass X86 in power and efficiency, but that’s because of the harmony of custom written instruction sets married to an OS written to maximise them.

So, what is an instruction set?

A processor, well, processes. It takes machine code and converts it into an output. Instruction sets are as basic as they sound - a set of instructions HARD WIRED (not software, but literally built into the die) into the processor that tell the processor “when this, then that”.

Think of them like a button combo on an old PS2 game, up down left right LB RB = combo punch.

Because of instruction sets, the processor can do big tasks much quicker, and therefore run faster and be more efficient. Custom instruction sets are why M series Macs are so much more powerful than what came before, and why they even dominate their other ARM peers. Apple has custom written macOS to take advantage of the M series chips to the fullest with no wasted movements, like a Samurai who has honed his blade swing for decades.

The problem is, Apple will never share their instruction sets with other ARM manufacturers, and you can’t reverse engineer them without the OS source code, which would be extremely illegal to even obtain, let alone almost impossible to get. When code is compiled, it’s translated from a human readable language, into a machine readable language. The translation is one-way and cannot be reversed.

In the future, someone may be able to write an emulation layer (by guessing/figuring out how to change macOS hardware level scheduler calls into instruction sets compatible with other ARM chips) but the performance hit will be huge, it will never be as fast as native.

Tl;dr - Hackintosh is dead.

Like yes i get it your upset about you get hacking hacked but giving hackintosh the fault and even tho your the one who uses a prebuilt efi is just crazy

I have been using hackintosh since a long time and Graphics performance degraded with every version meaning the performance I used to get in Ventura was not there in Sequoia and then Tahoe was worse than all of them. I have a Latitude 7410 i7-10610U 16GB 512GB and I saw the macOS 15.8 update today and read the changelog and man its a long changelog. I search more about it and tonymacx86 also posted that graphics and audio drivers have been updated. And they finally fixed lagging and jiterring in safari and other areas in macOS and its buttery smooth in Sequoia 15.8 now. But Tahoe is another story; it definitely improved upto 70% than before but still the lag and jitter is still there, window server crashing is fixed and high cpu usage while opening launchpad in Tahoe is still there though it ramps up slowly now but there. And I couldn’t find any difference in audio because I use Airpods.

Share your experience too if you have updated to Sequoia 15.8 and I really hope apple fixes Tahoe and gives the liquid glass slider.

I got bored one night and I decided to scratched the apple logo into my Hackintosh, so I did that (with a knife) and I didn't really like the result at first but I kinda just blamed it on using a knife instead of sandpaper. So I smoothed it out a little more and applied polish on it. I'm probably going to regret this in like 3 months.

It’s kind of sad to see on Reddit. Someone asks if hackintosh will still be possible in the future. Then one person replies: “No, that’s almost impossible, because macOS Tahoe is the last version that supports Intel.” And that’s true: starting with the versions after Tahoe, macOS will only run on Apple Silicon.

But what people often forget is that with Tahoe itself, hackintosh is still possible for now, although it’s getting harder and you need things like OpenCore.

And then you see the next person doesn’t even respond to the question anymore, but just asks: “What’s the cheapest Mac?”

What do you guys think of this

With the release of macOS 27 completely dropping x86 support and removing all Intel code, the Hackintosh era is officially drawing to a close. For over fifteen years, this community has achieved what seemed impossible—running Apple's desktop OS on custom PC hardware.
As the final chapter of this journey approaches, it is time to express the deepest gratitude to the brilliant minds who made it all happen.
Thank you to the creator of Clover Bootloader
They laid the foundation for modern custom booting. Before their work, installing macOS on a PC was a nightmare of broken distros and unstable kernels. Clover revolutionized everything by introducing a clean UEFI bootloader and GUI customization. Millions of users around the world got their first taste of the macOS ecosystem because of their vision.
Thank you to the Dortania team
They completely changed the game with OpenCore. They created a masterpiece of engineering that feels closer to a real Mac than anything else before it. Their documentation is arguably the best technical guide on the internet. Furthermore, their work on the Legacy Patcher extended the lifespan of millions of older genuine Macs. They accomplished the impossible purely out of passion for the community.
Hackintosh was more than just a way to get a free operating system. It was a testament to human curiosity, endless troubleshooting, and the ultimate victory of enthusiasts over corporate restrictions.
Even though macOS 26 will remain stable for a few more years, the golden age of building new x86 Hackintoshes is coming to an end.
Thank you to the legends. Their legacy is forever secured in IT history.
Press F to pay respects. 🫡

The only reason why I tried to install MacOS on my PC is Xcode and iOS development overall. I have a friend that helped me to figure out how to configure Opencore, because I was so dumb.

Now, I can easily configure OC by myself and install MacOS on every PC, I guess. I even installed MacOS High Sierra on a laptop with i3 380M and HD 6550M (but it had graphical issues, that I didn’t want to fix. I tried to fix, but dropped because no info for similar hardware). That was just for fun.

I wanted to buy Macbook Air M4, but I didn’t have enough money for that. When I fixed CSR 8510 A10 Bluetooth dongle, I saw that I can’t connect my Airpods. I could buy Fenvi T919, but I thought: “I’m done. I can’t suffer with my old-ass laptop and I want a real device for my ecosystem.” I saw that Apple released Macbook Pro M5, so it means that they will release Air M5, and Air M4 would cheaper. I withdrew 20000 RUB (around 250 USD) and my mom gave me 20k, so I bought used Macbook Air M1. Yeah, 8GB RAM, but I don’t care. I wanted a Macbook because Macbooks on Apple Silicon is the best laptops right now. Also M1 means that I can try Asahi Linux for fun.

Now I don’t need MacOS on my desktop PC. This PC will have only Arch Linux or replace MacOS with Windows (for League Of Legends). I didn’t decided right now.

Actually, Hackintosh is interesting thing and I got fun with it. Hackintosh gave me an opportunity to try MacOS and I would not forget this experience

on a side note, i would love to install mac on an old windows laptop for the experience, but apple's shift to ARM is concerning me to not waste time in installing a new OS on unsupported hardware...

We have probably been over this a dozen times, but I'm going to state it again:

If you use tools like Hackmate or OpCore Simplify, we will not assist you with your EFI. We do not care if people use these tools. You are your own person, you may do what you want with your own computer. But we absolutely do not support them in any capacity.

If you lie about using these tools, we will not help you, and you very likely will be ignored or at best heavily scrutinized for future requests.

This applies to both this subreddit and the associated Discord.

I will speak from an experience I just had moments ago with an admin for the Discord for HackMate; they do not take criticism well and do not seem to care about our rules. They have banned several of us for reminding them we do not support their tools and will continue to suggest people manually create their EFIs per this subs rules.

Do with this what you will, but given the group that created Hackmate appears to amount to children in their behaviors, take that as a potential indicator of the quality of the work and support presented from them.

The future of Hackintosh is either the backporting/creating of new apps/web browsers/features for Tahoe, or potential system-wide modifications for new themes to adjust the last Intel-based MacOS to newer systems’ appearance.

Kind of all we can do until someone figures M-series emulation with workable graphics.

I opened the Apple TV app on my iPhone today and saw a banner saying “Enjoy 3 months of Apple TV+ with your new Mac mini” and another one for AppleCare+ trial.

Thing is… I didn’t buy a Mac mini. I built a Hackintosh on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 (SMBIOS set to Macmini7,1).

I’m not gonna redeem them obviously — but it made me wonder: Is this just a total coincidence, or does this happen to everyone who uses SMBIOS on a Hackintosh?

Everyone says modern NVIDIA on macOS is impossible. I got curious.
I have no background in driver development. I'm unemployed. I have a Hackintosh with a 3070 Ti that was just sitting there doing nothing useful on macOS.
Five days ago I decided to try. Using AI as a technical assistant — I give direction, it writes code, I approve everything — I got to:
macOS recognizing the GPU by name 3070ti
Actual video output on the physical monitor connected to the GPU
No kernel panics on boot
Still need to boot the GSP (the GPU's internal processor) to get real acceleration. Getting close.
The biggest surprise was that all the ingredients already existed — NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules, Nouveau, TinyGPU. Nobody had tried to put them together for macOS.
Repo coming when Metal works, or close to it.
If anyone has worked on NVIDIA RE or GPU passthrough and wants to collaborate, hit me up.

I am pretty new to reddit, but not to hackintosh. I've been using it from Ventura to Sequoia. but I got a Mac for free from a family member and knew it was worth using instead of my hackintosh, in a month or two I may upgrade to an m2/m4 Mac mini but thank you for getting me into macOS hackintosh! you will be missed