Add iPhone17,3 iOS 27.0 beta 8 (24A5430a) paired with cloudOS 26.4 to the
firmware catalog so it appears in the `fw prepare` picker, `fw catalog`,
and the `--json` report. Document it in the Tested Environments table
across README.md and the ja/ko/zh translations. Bump the hardcoded
pairing/menu count in FirmwarePickerTests 22 -> 23.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Fork main was force-pushed to ae7a0ac, orphaning the previously pinned
ee9a284. Advance the pin so fresh clones resolve against a live ref.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Add iPhone17,3 iOS 27.0 beta 7 (24A5424a) paired with cloudOS 26.4 to the
firmware catalog so it appears in the `fw prepare` picker, `fw catalog`,
and the `--json` report. Document it in the Tested Environments table
across README.md and the ja/ko/zh translations. Bump the hardcoded
pairing/menu count in FirmwarePickerTests 21 -> 22.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ej64m761KR33KaNYh3BuTo
The bundled 26.6.1 IPSW pointed at the 23G82 release candidate, which
differs from the shipped release. Point it at the 23G83 final restore
and update the tested-environment tables accordingly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Add iPhone17,3 iOS 27.0 beta 6 (24A5418b) paired with cloudOS 26.4 to the
firmware catalog so it appears in the `fw prepare` picker, `fw catalog`,
and the `--json` report. Document it in the Tested Environments table
across README.md and the ja/ko/zh translations. Bump the hardcoded
pairing/menu count in FirmwarePickerTests 20 -> 21.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Add iPhone17,3 iOS 26.6.1 (23G82) paired with cloudOS 26.4 to the
firmware catalog so it appears in the `fw prepare` picker, `fw catalog`,
and the `--json` report. Document it in the Tested Environments table
across README.md and the ja/ko/zh translations. Bump the hardcoded
pairing/menu count in FirmwarePickerTests 19 -> 20.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Reflect fast-by-default compression (--max = xz -9), directory
auto-naming, and the positional import argument in the README and its
ja/ko/zh translations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Export/import UX overhaul, wiring in the counting-pipe and progress-bar
primitives:
- Compression: replace `--compress {fast,balanced,max}` with a fast
(zstd -3) default and a single `--max` (xz -9) flag; drop balanced.
- `vm export --out DIR`: when the destination is an existing directory,
auto-name the archive `<vm>.tzst`/`.txz` and print the resolved path.
- `vm import ARCHIVE`: take the archive as a positional argument instead
of `--in`.
- Progress bars: export runs a two-stage tar pipeline (uncompressed
gnutar producer -> compressing consumer via bsdtar `@-`) so the bar is
driven off the known uncompressed total; import extracts once (was
decompressing twice) and counts the archive as it is fed into `tar -x`.
gnutar avoids the pax-header `@-` mtree misbid on large members and,
unlike ustar, carries files >8 GB.
Import validates the single top-level bundle after extracting into a
private staging dir, still failing fast on an explicit --name collision.
Tests: default is fast zstd; --max is xz; directory auto-naming yields
the right extensions; export/import invoke progress with monotonic,
correctly-totalled callbacks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Two building blocks for streaming progress on vm export/import, unused
until the export/import rework wires them in:
- VPhoneProcessRunner.runCountingTarPipe: drives a /usr/bin/tar consumer
that reads its archive on stdin, invoking a callback with the running
byte total. The source is either a producer tar (export) or a file read
directly (import). SIGPIPE is ignored so a consumer that dies early
surfaces as its exit status instead of killing this process.
- VPhoneProgressBar: a single-line redrawing byte bar that renders to
stderr only when it is a TTY, so piped/--json/GUI-subprocess runs stay
clean and it simply no-ops.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The build cross-compiles the guest daemon (vphoned) for iOS, which
requires the iOS SDK bundled with Xcode. Add it to the host
prerequisites in the English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese READMEs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Export previously hardcoded xz -9 (the densest but slowest libarchive
compressor), forcing a multi-GB Disk.img through the most aggressive
setting on every export.
Add a `--compress {fast,balanced,max}` preset on `vphone vm export`,
default `balanced`:
fast zstd -3
balanced zstd -19 (new default)
max xz -9 (previous behavior)
All presets go through the same system /usr/bin/tar (libarchive) already
used for xz, so no new dependency and no raised platform floor. Import is
unchanged: it already auto-detects the compressor via `tar -tf`/`-xf`, so
zstd and xz archives both import.
Tests assert each preset's magic bytes (zstd vs xz), that fast/max
round-trip, and the default is zstd. README examples updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The JB first-boot setup adds the Frida repo (deb https://build.frida.re/ ./)
next to the existing Havoc source, so Sileo/apt can install and update Frida
packages. Idempotent — skipped if a build.frida.re source is already present —
and picked up by the same insecure-repo `apt-get update` that follows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- ARM64Encoder round-trips (TBZ/TBNZ bit retarget, movz flag clear) and the
cloudOS 26.4 version-gate compare.
- Reveal procedures and static/runtime validation for both kernel patches;
patch-comparison table rows JB-23b / JB-25c and the opt-in note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
On a --frida build, fetch_debs.sh resolves the latest frida iphoneos-arm64
release deb (== re.frida.server: no Depends, rootless /var/jb layout) into the
debs cache; the existing first-boot `dpkg -i` step installs it. VPHONE_FRIDA is
forwarded through the host CFW install. No APT source or dependency resolution.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Expose --frida on patch-firmware, patch-component, fw patch, and vm create
(plus `make fw_patch_jb/exp FRIDA=1`), threading it into
KernelJBPatcher.applyFrida via FirmwarePipeline.
The kernel patches apply only when the cloudOS kernel is 26.4+ (the versions
where the shapes were validated); older kernels are left untouched. Baseline
JB/EXP output is byte-identical without --frida (26.4 emits 83 records, 87 with).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Two narrowly-scoped patches, emitted only under the Frida opt-in:
- thread_set_state: clear TSSF_CHECK_ENTITLEMENT in the thread_set_state user
setters (mov w6,#0x201 -> #0x1) so Frida can follow an existing thread without
a GUARD_TYPE_MACH_PORT kill, while preserving TSSF_TRANSLATE_TO_USER and the
TH_IN_MACH_EXCEPTION guard.
- vm_map_delete: retarget the immutable-code exception from current-protection
execute (bit 9) to max-protection execute (bit 13) so a debugger-created
RW/max-RWX permanent mapping survives repeated VM_PROT_COPY re-instrumentation
instead of returning KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE.
Both matchers are semantic (entitlement-string / developer-mode / call-flow
anchored, no hardcoded offsets/VAs/registers/bytes) and fail closed; replacement
bytes come from ARM64Encoder and are Capstone-verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
iOS 27's os_lockdown_mode_enabled() resolves Lockdown Mode via
sysctlbyname("security.mac.lockdown_mode_state_public", ...) and os_crashes
on a -1 return. The vphone base kernel (cloudOS 26.x) does not implement that
MAC sysctl, so the call returns -1/ENOENT and the first daemon to query
Lockdown Mode after "Continuing system boot" -- launchd (pid 1) -- aborts,
panicking the system (initproc exited, namespace 2 subcode 6).
Add cfw_patch_lockdown_mode.py: NOP the `cmn w0,#1; b.eq <os_crash>` gate so
the pre-zeroed output buffer path is taken (Lockdown Mode = disabled);
behavior-neutral on a kernel that implements the sysctl. Wire it into cfw.py
(patch-lockdown-mode) and the cfw_install.sh 27.* DSC-patch block. Also fixes
the 0_binary_patch_comparison.md LWCR note and adds row 16.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N2bwKrGJWY7o2ArdxibVPe
The patcher resolved `_xpc_token_satisfies_lwcr`, but libxpc's internal
routine carries the standard extra leading underscore in the DSC symbol
table (`__xpc_token_satisfies_lwcr`), so the lookup missed and the patch
silently no-op'd on every iOS 27 build. Resolve against the mangled name,
falling back to the source name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N2bwKrGJWY7o2ArdxibVPe
Add the iPhone17,3 27.0 24A5408d + cloudOS 26.4 pairing to the firmware
catalog so it is selectable in `fw prepare` / `vm create`, and bump the two
hardcoded pairing counts in the picker tests (18 -> 19).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N2bwKrGJWY7o2ArdxibVPe
PyPI has no arm64 macOS wheel for keystone-engine, so pip builds it
from the sdist, whose make-share.sh invokes cmake directly. Without
it the build fails silently and installs bindings with no native
library, which is what the libkeystone repair recovers from.
The unified tool provisions ~/.vphone/venv itself and never runs
setup_venv.sh, so it lost that script's libkeystone handling. It
pip-installs and then verifies with pythonIsUsable, which only probes
ipsw_parser — a venv with keystone bindings and no native library
passes, gets cached as good, and fails much later inside fw patch.
That state is reachable and silent. PyPI has no arm64 macOS wheel
(only macosx_10_14_x86_64), so pip builds keystone-engine from its
sdist, and the sdist's darwin path ignores the build's exit status
(subprocess.call plus a glob that matches nothing) — a failed native
build still installs bindings alone and pip reports success.
Probe that keystone can assemble rather than merely import, and on
failure install a loadable dylib next to the bindings: copy one from
Homebrew if the bottle ships it, else link one from libkeystone.a,
matching setup_venv.sh. The managed venv is repaired in place before
being rebuilt, since a missing dylib is not worth a full re-install.
Verified: repairs a venv whose dylibs were removed, and recovers a
fresh bootstrap that produced bindings-only (pip cache cleared, cmake
off PATH) — pip exits 0, the guard catches it, the venv is accepted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
`do shell script … with administrator privileges` runs the command under a
helper process that inherits none of our fds, so AppleScript can only hand
back its output once the command has EXITED — and it rewrites every \n to
\r on the way, which a reader applying terminal semantics (the GUI's log
view) takes for progress-bar overwrites, keeping only the final line. The
CFW install stage therefore sat silent for minutes and then showed one line.
Name our own terminal in the command instead: ttyname(stdout) is an absolute
device path the privileged shell can open, and under the GUI it is already
the pty the app is reading. Output then arrives as produced, with newlines
intact, on a tty the script's children line-buffer to. Gated on `echo` so
quiet verbosity still suppresses it, and skipped when stdout is not a tty.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The fw prepare step sent the script's entire stdout/stderr to
/dev/null unless -v was passed, so the aria2c/curl/wget progress bar
was discarded with it. That left the longest phase of the pipeline —
a multi-GB IPSW download — printing nothing for minutes, which reads
as a hang.
Stream it unconditionally. Standalone `fw prepare` already does this
by flooring its verbosity at .info; this brings `vm create` in line.
The script itself is status-line based (~40 echoes, unzip -oq, no
per-file loops), so this adds progress rather than noise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Boots without a VM window or menu bar. The guest keeps its display
device, so the boot chain is unchanged — only the AppKit window, menu
bar and Dock presence are skipped.
Available on `boot` and `vm launch`. `vm create` now uses it for both
setup boots (first boot and boot analysis); --interactive keeps the
window, since it asks the operator to press Enter once the VM has
booted and the window is their only progress cue.
Note: the vphone.sock host control socket does not start in headless
mode — its handler needs the VZVirtualMachineView capture view.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
`vm create` built the orchestrator Options without setting diskSizeGB, so
the disk was pinned to the 64 GB default no matter what. The downstream
plumbing (Options.diskSizeGB -> NewBundleSpec -> sparse Disk.img truncate)
already existed; this just exposes `-d/--disk-size` on the command and
threads it through, matching the existing `vm new` convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Show the known iOS ↔ cloudOS firmware pairings, one recommended cloudOS
per iOS build, projected from VPhoneFirmwareCatalog.pairings. Human
output is an aligned table; `--json`/`-j` emits an object carrying the
device plus each pairing's download URLs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
`vm info --json` and `vm list --json` encode VPhoneBundleReport, which
carried no network field — so the network mode was absent from JSON even
though the human-readable output prints `net:`. Consumers parsing JSON had
no way to read a VM's network config.
Project the manifest's NetworkConfig into VPhoneBundleReport as `network`,
so both `info` and `list` emit it as structured JSON (mode, macAddress,
bridgeInterface). NetworkConfig gains Equatable (VPhoneBundleReport is
Equatable). The text `net:` line now reads from the same report projection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
`vm info` now reports the CFW variant the VM was last restored to, its
predicted UDID, and the product type the guest identifies as.
- udid: read from the bundle's udid-prediction.txt (VPhoneRestoreOps.resolveUDID)
- variant + device: recorded into restore-info.json at CFW-install time, in
both the standalone `cfw install` and the `vm create` orchestrator. device is
iPhone99,11 for every variant except exp, whose DeviceTree rewrite -> iPhone17,3.
- both new restore-info.json fields are optional, so pre-existing bundles decode
unchanged and pick up variant/device on their next install.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Adds `--network nat|bridged|none` and `--bridge-interface` to `vm config`,
and wires the boot path to honor the stored networkConfig (it previously
hardcoded NAT and ignored the manifest). `vm info` now shows the mode.
- New VPhoneNetworking: validates the mode, resolves/auto-picks the bridge
interface, and builds the VZ network device — shared by config-time
editing and boot.
- bridged uses VZBridgedNetworkDeviceAttachment (com.apple.vm.networking
entitlement already present); hostOnly is rejected (no native VZ
attachment); none yields no NIC.
- Rename NetworkMode.none -> .off (raw value kept "none") so a NetworkMode?
literal `.none` can't silently bind to Optional.none.
The MAC is left framework-assigned; forcing a custom MAC breaks guest
networking, so no MAC override is exposed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
* feat: add --root-popup to elevate CFW host-mount via macOS auth dialog
Adds --root-popup to `cfw install` and `vm create`, elevating the CFW host-mount through macOS's native authentication dialog (osascript -> do shell script with administrator privileges) instead of the script's sudo re-exec. do shell script runs under a bare env, so the vars the bundled scripts read are forwarded inline, plus SUDO_USER so the script's chown-back still returns artifacts to the invoking user. On `vm create`, --sudo-password takes precedence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
* cfw: remove entire .cfw_temp on install cleanup
Replaces the selective `rm -f` of individual temp binaries with `rm -rf "$TEMP_DIR"`, dropping the cached Cryptex DMGs along with the temp files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Delete the three large regenerable intermediates once their consumers
finish, keeping the source archives so nothing needs re-downloading:
- built restore firmware (iPhone*_Restore/) after CFW install (its last
consumer — it copies the SystemOS/AppOS cryptexes onto Disk.img)
- extracted base-IPSW dirs (iOS + cloudOS) at end of fw prepare; the
downloaded .ipsw files are kept, so a re-run re-extracts, no re-download
- extracted CFW input dirs (cfw_input/, cfw_jb_input/) after cfw install;
the resources .tar.zst archives are kept
Opt out with --keep-artifacts on `vm create` / `cfw install`, which
threads VPHONE_KEEP_ARTIFACTS to fw_prepare.sh and cfw_install_host.sh.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Snapshot the restored iOS userland and cloudOS kernel versions to
restore-info.json at the bundle root so they are readable without booting
the VM, rewritten after every successful restore (vm create and vm restore).
Versions are read host-side from the bundle's iPhone*_Restore plists
(iPhone-BuildManifest.plist for iOS, the hybrid BuildManifest.plist for
cloudOS). vm list / vm info / --json surface them; the file lives at the
bundle root so vm export carries it even when the IPSW dir is excluded.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Restructure the README (Prerequisites/Install/Build up top, a dedicated
SIP/AMFI Relaxation section, Tested Environments moved down) and trim prose.
Regenerate the Korean, Japanese, and Chinese translations to match the new
structure verbatim — same 13 sections in the same order, all commands, URLs,
tables, and identifiers preserved byte-for-byte, only prose and code comments
translated, docs/-relative links and in-language anchors applied.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
The v1.0.2 release build failed at the bundle codesign step:
.build/vphone-cli.app/Contents/MacOS/vphone-cli: code object is not signed at all
In subcomponent: .../Contents/MacOS/vphone-amfidont
Contents/MacOS is the bundle's nested-code directory, so signing the main
executable seals everything there and rejected the vphone-amfidont shell
script as unsigned nested code. (A script only gets a "generic" xattr
signature that wouldn't survive the release zip anyway.)
Move the bundled helper to Contents/Resources/vphone-amfidont, where it is
sealed as an ordinary resource (hashed, survives zip). Resources sits at the
same depth under Contents as MacOS, so the script's `${0:A:h:h:h}` .app
resolution is unchanged. The Homebrew `binary` stanza should point at
Contents/Resources/vphone-amfidont.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
New bundled tool `vphone-amfidont` (zsh script at Contents/MacOS/, exposed
on PATH alongside vphone-cli). It:
- resolves the enclosing vphone-cli.app (`${0:A:h:h:h}`; :A follows a
Homebrew symlink back into the bundle);
- ensures amfidont is installed, offering `xcrun python3 -m pip install`
if it is missing;
- checks (without root) whether an amfidont is already running — only one
can attach to amfid at a time. If so, it escalates to a single sudo to
read the running process's args and the /var/root config, reports whether
this .app is already covered (allowed path or --allow-all), and exits;
- otherwise starts `amfidont daemon --spoof-apple --path <app>`, resolving
amfidont's absolute path first so a pip-user install off root's
secure_path is still found under sudo.
build.sh bundles it next to vphone-cli/ldid in Contents/MacOS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
`vm create` on an interactive terminal now prompts for whichever firmware
component wasn't passed on the command line, choosing from a known-good
iPhone/cloudOS catalog by friendly name (e.g. "iOS 26.4", "cloudOS 26.4")
rather than raw URLs. Supply one of --iphone-source/--cloudos-source and
only the other is asked for; supply neither and a full pairing is chosen.
Non-interactive runs (or both flags set) pass through unchanged, so
fw_prepare's defaults still fill any gap and scripted use is unaffected.
- VPhoneFirmwareCatalog: 18 iPhone17,3 pairings + 4 distinct cloudOS images.
- VPhoneFirmwarePicker: pure, injectable-I/O resolver (13 unit tests).
- VPhoneFirmwareSelection: TTY adapter (isatty + readLine → stderr prompts).
- Wired into `vm create` before the orchestrator runs; READMEs (+ ja/ko/zh)
document the prompt behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
A whole-codebase audit surfaced path bugs that only bite the bundled .app —
especially when brew puts vphone-cli on $PATH via a symlink, so the process
launches by a bare name from an arbitrary CWD:
- HIGH (crash): CommandLine.arguments[0] was used to locate the running binary
and the resource base (VPhoneResources.resolve default, vm launch bootBinary,
vm create selfExe). Under a bare-name PATH launch argv[0] is just
"vphone-cli", which URL(fileURLWithPath:) resolves against the CWD (e.g.
$HOME/vphone-cli) — so `vm launch` errored "not found" and `vm create` couldn't
respawn to boot. Add VPhoneResources.runningExecutable() using
Bundle.main.executableURL (the kernel-provided path, correct regardless of
argv[0]/CWD/symlink) and route all three through it. One helper fixes every
.resolve() consumer.
- MEDIUM (silent): the extra-deb feature resolved its cache + manifest under the
read-only bundle (Resources/debs, Resources/debs.list). Honor VPHONE_DEBS_DIR
(a writable ~/.vphone/debs the app now sets, mirroring IPSW_DIR/VPHONE_SEAL_DIR)
and bundle debs.list.
- LOW (cosmetic): fw_prepare read ../README.md (absent in the bundle → firmwares
labeled "Not Tested"). Bundle README.md.
Verified: Bundle.main.executableURL yields the real binary under a bare-name
symlink launch (argv[0] → $HOME); build clean; 79 VPhoneCore tests pass.
boot_host_preflight.sh hardcoded RELEASE_BIN=$PROJECT_ROOT/.build/release/
vphone-cli. Inside the bundled .app, PROJECT_ROOT resolves to Contents/
Resources, so it looked for Contents/Resources/.build/release/vphone-cli —
which doesn't exist (the binary is at Contents/MacOS/vphone-cli). Under
--assert-bootable that made the preflight fail with "missing release binary",
blocking `vm launch` from a brew-installed or copied .app.
`vm launch` now passes the running executable (CommandLine.arguments[0]) to the
preflight via VPHONE_CLI_BIN and the script checks that binary; it still falls
back to the dev .build/release path for standalone/`make` invocation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Foundation `Process` starts children in a NEW process group, so a sudo it
spawns is a *background* member of the controlling terminal — it can't disable
echo or read the tty, so the typed password showed and wasn't delivered. No
stdio wiring fixes that (confirmed: a Process child's pgid != the parent's).
Add VPhoneProcessRunner.runForeground: hand the terminal to the child's process
group via tcsetpgrp (SIGTTOU/SIGTTIN ignored during the swap), restore ours
after. The CFW-install step uses it when no --sudo-password is given, so sudo
owns the tty and reads the password DIRECTLY — vphone-cli never sees it. Its
`echo` flag still honors verbosity: quiet suppresses the install's own output
(stdout/stderr → /dev/null) while sudo's /dev/tty prompt keeps working. With
--sudo-password the unattended askpass path is unchanged; a non-interactive run
with no password fails fast.
Verified under a PTY: without tcsetpgrp the child is background (the bug); with
it the child is foreground; and echo=false hides the child's output while it
stays foreground.
Also serialize LibraryTests: its two VPHONE_LIBRARY_ROOT env tests mutate a
process-global and raced under Swift Testing's parallelism (intermittent
failures) — mark the suite @Suite(.serialized).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
The release workflow ran `make bundle`, which produces a lean .app (binary +
ldid + signcert + icon only) — missing the bundled scripts/patchers/resources/
requirements.txt/vphoned/.tools — so published release assets were not
self-contained and `brew install` copies couldn't run the fw/restore/cfw
pipeline.
Switch to ./scripts/build.sh (the canonical portable build):
- also init the scripts/resources storage submodule + the
scripts/repos/{trustcache,insert_dylib} tool sources
- build .tools/bin/{trustcache,insert_dylib} (mirrors setup_tools steps 2-3;
its venv + sshpass steps aren't needed to build)
- run build.sh, then fail the job if the bundle is missing any runtime asset
or the virtualization entitlement before packaging + uploading
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
- README.md rewritten around the vphone-cli binary (no make): tested-env
matrix, two-path SIP/AMFI setup, firmware variants, commands, short flags,
and a Python-runtime section covering the auto-provisioned venv / portability
- docs/README_{ko,ja,zh}.md regenerated as full translations mirroring it
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
- scripts/build.sh builds+signs the binary, bundles a self-contained .app
(mirrors scripts/patchers/resources/tools/vphoned + requirements.txt into
Contents/Resources) and re-signs; the signed guest daemon stages under
.build (not the repo root)
- CryptexFilesystemPatcher resolves assets via VPhoneResources instead of
CWD-relative paths
- Makefile space-safety; .gitignore updates
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
Full command surface so create → patch → restore → install → boot → manage all
run through vphone-cli, no make required:
- vm list/info/new/config/rename/delete/clone/export/import, launch/stop
(--kernel-debug-port forwarded to the boot binary)
- native end-to-end `vm create` (VPhoneCreateOrchestrator)
- fw prepare/patch, restore + cfw install
- `setup` to provision the Python env up front (also automatic on first use)
- interactive VM selection when a name is omitted, short option aliases, and
-v/-vv/-vvv verbosity
Wire the subcommands in main.swift/VPhoneCLI.swift; adjust VPhoneControl/
VPhoneError/VPhoneVirtualMachine for the config-driven boot path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
The library the consolidated CLI is built on:
- bundle/library model (VPhoneBundle, VPhoneLibrary, VPhoneVirtualMachineManifest),
bundle ops + reporting, restore helpers (VPhoneRestoreOps)
- host process primitives: VPhoneProcessRunner, VPhoneManagedProcess (spawn +
stdout pattern-match + SIGKILL-escalating terminate), VPhoneLaunchLayout,
VPhoneBootPatterns
- VPhoneResources: bundled-.app vs dev asset resolution, and Python resolution
that provisions a per-user venv (~/.vphone/venv) on demand so the app is
portable — never depends on the repo's .venv
- VPhoneVerbosity (quiet/info/debug/trace) and VPhoneVMPicker
Manifest moves out of the executable target into VPhoneCore. Full unit-test
suite under tests/VPhoneCoreTests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4VDqWf5pVakcFLqB23CKe
On 26.x bases the EXC_GUARD (Mach port guard) disable patch is not required
to boot, so it is no longer applied unconditionally on regular/jb/exp.
Production apps shipping crash-reporting/RASP SDKs (Bugly, Crashlytics,
KSCrash) call task_swap_exception_ports(), which the research kernel enforces
as a fatal GUARD_TYPE_MACH_PORT violation on launch; a --force-exc-guard flag
(FORCE_EXC_GUARD=1 in the Makefile) re-enables the patch for those cases.
iOS 18 bases and the dev variant keep the patch always-on, since both need it
to boot. The documented violation is corrected from SET_EXCEPTION_BEHAVIOR to
KOBJECT_REPLY_PORT_SEMANTICS, matching the actual reproduction crash logs.
Also add /vm-*/ to .gitignore for multi-VM directories.
Co-authored-by: Paulo Sarrin <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: zqxwce <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
patch-dsc-maxslide self-gates to a no-op when the shared cache fits the
vphone600 26.x kernel's 6 GiB region, which 26.x/18.x bases always do, so
it only fires on 27. Add a --force flag that bypasses the fits-check and
zeroes maxSlide unconditionally (still idempotent), and a
FORCE_DSC_MAXSLIDE=1 env opt-in in cfw_install.sh that runs it on non-27
bases. Default off; 27 behavior unchanged.
Also fix the installer env-threading in cfw_install_host.sh: a
${VAR:+NAME=val} word produced by expansion is not parsed as a shell
assignment (zsh runs it as a command), so route the assignments through
env. This makes FORCE_DSC_MAXSLIDE reach the installer and repairs the
same latent bug for SPOOF_BUILD.
Verified on a 26.4 JB VM: FORCE_DSC_MAXSLIDE=1 yields on-disk maxSlide=0
and a live shared-cache slide of 0x0 (dyld maps the cache at its
preferred base 0x180000000 in rpcserver_ios), versus the nonzero slide a
stock 26.4 boot picks.
Docs + research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md updated (README and the ja/ko/zh
translations).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The JB blanket-neuters Sandbox mpo_vnode_check_open (ops[267] -> allow) so
processes can read /var/jb. FileProvider's fpfs parent-walk relies on the stock
check's EACCES at the domain-container boundary as its terminus; with it
neutered the walk climbs unbounded and ResolverService balloons (~12 GB) ->
vm-compressor-space-shortage jetsam -> backboardd killed -> respring
(27b4/24A5390f).
Keep the global bypass, enforce the real check for the FileProvider daemons
only. On iOS 27, ops[267] is left un-neutered (removed from the JB-09 blanket
list) and retargeted to a code-cave trampoline: inline current_proc
(tpidr_el1 -> uthread+0x3F0 -> proc+0x18), read p_comm (+0x56C), and for
ResolverService/fileproviderd branch to the real vnode_check_open, else return
allow. Register-only, no frame/call. Gated to a 27.x base via applyIOS27; other
bases keep the blanket neuter.
Verified: cave disasm + branch targets correct (final b -> real
vnode_check_open); 26.5 kernelcache byte-identical pre-vs-post (ops[267] stays
neutered there). Documented as JB-29 in research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YNySXhjsxhFG9yZMBHJUqY
iOS 27 XPC servers pin a Lightweight Code Requirement on their listener
(xpc_connection_set_peer_lightweight_code_requirement / the Swift
XPCPeerRequirement.hasEntitlement wrapper). Creating one self-checks via
libxpc _xpc_token_satisfies_lwcr, whose matcher returns a "matched" bool
plus a match_result.error_code and then hard-asserts they agree
(matched == (error_code == AICMR_MATCH), where AICMR_MATCH == 0) via
_os_crash_msg -> brk #1.
Under our JB code-signing environment the matcher writes error_code =
MATCH(0) but returns a failure status, producing the forbidden
(matched=0, error_code=0) pair, so libxpc aborts. Every daemon that pins
an entitlement peer-requirement at startup crash-loops continuously from
boot: intelligencetasksd, searchpartyd, transparencyd, bluetoothd, ...
Fix (cfw_patch_xpc_lwcr.py, 27.*-gated in cfw_install.sh, self-gating on
the symbol): derive "matched" from error_code and drop the abort. The
three instructions "cset w8,ne; eor w8,w0,w8; tbz w8,#0,<abort>" become
"cset w0,eq; nop; nop". The function then returns (error_code == 0),
reproducing stock behavior when the two agree and resolving the
contradiction toward "satisfied" when error_code says MATCH; genuine
allow/deny (error_code != 0) is unchanged. Symbol resolved from the DSC
.symbols table, site located by control-flow shape (Capstone),
replacements from Keystone, modified 16 KiB page re-attested
(cfw_dsc_codesign; CDHash change accepted by the JB AMFI cdhash-trust
patch).
Validated on 17,3_27.0_24A5390f + cloudOS 26.4 (JB, host-mount deploy):
the four crash-loopers disappear from the crash census after boot;
launchd (which links libxpc) boots clean past first unlock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
iOS 27's Campo (wallpaper renderer) runs under the temporary-sandbox profile
(its own com.apple.private.sandbox.profile:embedded + no-container). On the 26.4
vphone600 kernel that builtin profile predates 27 and denies the backboard/
frontboard launch mach-services, so BKSDisplayServicesStart and then
+[BKSHIDEventDeliveryManager sharedInstance] fail their mach-lookups, log
"backboardd isn't running -- or we couldn't talk to it", and brk ~34ms after
launch -> continuous crash-loop, no wallpaper. JB-02d's container-upcall
force-success stops the exec-time autobox kill but does not grant these services.
Grant them through Campo's own com.apple.security.exception.mach-lookup.global-name
array (the sanctioned escape hatch, honored by temporary-sandbox -- Campo already
ships ~20 such exceptions; these launch services just aren't among them because
27's profile allows them directly). Applied at host-mount build time as step
JB-3b in cfw_install_jb.sh / cfw_install_exp.sh, re-signed with signcert.p12 via
ldid_sign_ent. The service list is merged by the external helper
scripts/patchers/campo_mach_lookup_exceptions.py (plistlib, not plutil -- the
entitlement key's dots would break plutil keypaths).
Hard-gated to 27.* on the mounted rootfs SystemVersion.plist (same gate as the
vpregister/DSC patches): skipped on 26.x/18.x, which don't need it and where
Campo.app also exists.
Verified on-device (17,3_27.0_24A5390f + cloudOS 26.4, JB): Campo launches and
stays up, no BKSDisplayServicesStart/BKSHIDEventDeliveryManager trap. Documented
as entry #14 in research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014McnrLRb5cZsTrpcBkvkj3
Add the 27.0 / `17,3_27.0_24A5380h` / `26.4-23E5207q` row to the
tested-environments table across README.md and the ja/ko/zh translations,
and update docs/demo.jpeg.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
Productionize the 3-part fix that makes `pymobiledevice3 mounter auto-mount`
land the personalized DDI at /System/Developer on the iOS-27-userland /
26.4-vphone600-kernel (c0ecdb4b) JB hybrid.
- KernelJBPatchDiskImages2.swift (new; wired into KernelJBPatcher.findAll):
DiskImages2 ABI acceptance. GATE1/GATE2b NOP the CreateDevice/Connect
cmp#9/b.ne ABI-version rejects (kernel driver v9 vs iOS-27 controller/daemon
v11). GATE2 widens the RegisterNotificationPort backing array + both
bound-check field loads (all-or-nothing) to clear the `type < getMaxPorts`
off-by-one that otherwise fails the attach ("Can't register notification
port").
- KernelJBPatchSandboxExtended: retarget mac_policy_ops[124]
(mpo_proc_check_syscall_unix) to the allow stub so MobileStorageMounter's
mount_apfs can make the mount(2) syscall (unix 167) — else the kernel
Sandbox denies it ("Protobox: mount_apfs deny(1) syscall-unix 167").
- cfw_patch_diskimagesiod.py + cfw.py + cfw_install.sh (gated to 27.*):
force -[DIDiskArb isMountCompleteWithExpectedCount:diskTracker:] -> YES so
MobileStorageMounter's waitForDAMount returns and it performs the real
nobrowse mount.
GATE2a anchor fix (the critical one): Capstone on this toolchain decodes the
AllocPortsArray size-shift lsl-immediate (a UBFM alias) as 2 operands, not the
xd,xn,#imm 3-operand shape. The original 3-operand + imm==3 match found 0, so
the all-or-nothing silently skipped GATE2 on every build (only manual dd pokes
ever worked). Now matched on mnemonic + destination x1 — the unique
size-writing lsl in AllocPortsArray; the replacement is a fixed mov x1,#0x4000
so the shift amount is irrelevant. Verified from a clean build on c0ecdb4b via
`patch-component --component kernel-jb --records-out`: all five di2 records
emit (createdevice, connect, allocports_size, notif_boundcheck_d8/e8), and
`pmd3 mounter auto-mount` -> rc=0 with the DDI mounted, no poke.
Documented in research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md (JB-09, JB-28, CFW
binary-patch #13).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
On iOS 27, -[LSApplicationWorkspace registerApplicationDictionary:] (what the
first-boot `uicache -a` uses) is a deprecated no-op stub — lsd logs "You cannot
use -[LSApplicationWorkspace registerApplicationDictionary:] to register
applications anymore. These interfaces have been deprecated for years." and it
returns NO. So vphone_jb_setup.sh installs Sileo's .deb but never registers it:
the files land in /var/jb/Applications but Sileo never appears on the home
screen. There is no gate to patch here — Apple removed the implementation.
Fix: register JB apps via the modern containerized API instead.
- scripts/vpregister/vpregister.m: standalone helper that registers
/var/jb/Applications/*.app (or given paths) via
registerContainerizedApplicationWithInfoDictionaries:...:registrationError:,
treating a nil error as success (it returns NO even when it registers). Works
once lsd's embedded-reg gate is patched (cfw_patch_lsd_embedded_reg, applied
by cfw_install.sh, which cfw_install_jb.sh and cfw_install_exp.sh both chain).
It lives in its OWN dir (scripts/vpregister/), NOT scripts/vphoned/, so it is
not swept up by the `scripts/vphoned/*.m` globs that build vphoned
(cfw_install.sh, cfw_install_dev.sh, and the vphoned Makefile all glob that
dir) — otherwise its main() collides with vphoned's ("duplicate symbol
'_main'"). Built separately by the JB/EXP installers.
- cfw_install_jb.sh / cfw_install_exp.sh: build + sign (vphoned entitlements +
CFW signcert) + deploy vpregister to /cores.
- vphone_jb_setup.sh: after dpkg + uicache -a, invoke /cores/vpregister to
register JB apps via the containerized path. Guarded by [ -x ].
vpregister verified on 17,3_27.0_24A5380h + cloudOS 26.4 (JB): registers Sileo
via the containerized API (uicache -l 0->1) on the gate-patched VM. The exact
cfw_install.sh vphoned build (VPHONED_SRCS glob + clang) now links cleanly with
vpregister.m relocated. Doc: item 12 in research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
iOS 27 lsd gates app (re)registration behind
-[_LSDModifyClient clientIsEntitledForEmbeddedRegistrationOperations], an
XPC-peer entitlement check for one of three privileged entitlements
(coreservices.lsaw / installcoordinationd.daemon /
coreservices.can-register-install-results). Missing -> NSOSStatusErrorDomain
-54 (permErr, LSDModifyService.mm:1639), so registerApplicationDictionary: and
registerContainerizedApplicationWithInfoDictionaries: fail and no app can
register — blocking vphoned's installer, TrollStore, and uicache/Sileo. The
entitlement route is unsatisfiable: LS registration is proxied, so the peer lsd
inspects is not the caller (even vphoned with all three in its validated csblob
is rejected).
Fix (two parts):
- cfw_patch_lsd_embedded_reg.py: NOP the gate's final cbz so the check always
returns YES + re-attest the 16 KiB page (TXM per-page). Wired into cfw.py
(patch-lsd-embedded-reg) and cfw_install.sh (after patch-dsc-maxslide);
self-gates on pre-27 userlands (method absent). Method resolved via the DSC's
own .symbols in-image table (ipsw symaddr/a2s time out on this cache), gate
located by control-flow shape (cbz/cbnz w0 whose fall-through sets the
mov w<reg>,#1 result), NOP bytes from Keystone. New CDHash accepted by the JB
always-true AMFI cdhash-trust patch.
- vphoned vp_register_path: fall back from the (still-gated) plain
registerApplicationDictionary: to the containerized registration API, which
works once the gate is patched (treat a nil registrationError as success
since it returns NO even when it registers).
Verified on 17,3_27.0_24A5380h + cloudOS 26.4 (JB): -54 gone, Sileo registers
(uicache -l 0->1), vphoned installs+registers a test IPA (com.vphone.vptest) to
/var/containers/Bundle/Application end-to-end; clean boot (re-attest correct).
Documented as item 12 in research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
Recognize entrypoints already rewritten to `b _kern_Swap*` by a prior run (first
insn is `b` targeting the kern address) and count them as `already` covered
instead of aborting. Previously a reinstall / re-patch of an already-forced DSC
raised "did not retarget required entrypoints" because the trampoline shape was
gone. Now: covered = forced | already; require the REQUIRED set to be a subset
of covered; re-attest only when something was newly written (skip cleanly when
all entrypoints are already forced). Enables the host-mount reinstall loop on an
already-patched VM. No behaviour change on a fresh DSC.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
The 26.4 vphone600 kernel resolves each process's containers at exec via a
synchronous MIG upcall to containermanagerd over the container-manager host
special port (HOST_CONTAINERD_PORT). iOS 27 DELETED this kernel-side upcall (the
stock 27 kernel has no HOST_CONTAINERD_PORT / CM_KERN_* protocol — container
resolution moved out of the kernel), so 27's containermanagerd no longer
implements the reply server. On the 26.4 kernel running a 27.0 userland the
upcall therefore fails (MACH_SEND_INVALID_DEST) for every platform app -> they
are autoboxed into the restrictive `temporary-sandbox` profile, which denies
mach-lookup com.apple.backboard.display.services -> Campo (the wallpaper
renderer) crash-loops (no wallpaper), plus intelligencetasksd / feedbackd.
Re-registering the host special port is a confirmed dead end: the 26.4 kernel
then SENDS the MIG request and BLOCKS for a reply 27 cannot produce -> early-boot
deadlock (SpringBoard never comes up).
Fix (patchContainerManagerUpcall): flip the `cbz w0,<success>` guard in
_hook_cred_label_update_execve (taken when the upcall returns 0) to an
unconditional `b <success>`, so a failed upcall takes the success path instead
of autobox/kill. Anchored structurally on the "failed to upcall to
containermanagerd" string xref (-> the cbz immediately before the string-load
adrp, preceded by the upcall bl, unique backward branch); replacement b from the
Keystone-backed ARM64Encoder. No-op-in-effect for version-matched userlands
(there the upcall succeeds, so the original cbz already branches to <success>).
- new: sources/FirmwarePatcher/Kernel/JBPatches/KernelJBPatchContainerUpcall.swift
- KernelJBPatcher.findAll: call patchContainerManagerUpcall after
patchExecSecurityPolicyKill
- cfw_install.sh: document the port-25 launchd-cache approach as a dead end
(no active code)
- research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md: add row JB-02d
Validated on-device (iPhone17,3 27.0 24A5380h + cloudOS 26.4 c0ecdb4b, JB):
iOS 27 wallpaper renders, Campo/SpringBoard/backboardd stable, clean boot (no
freeze, no panic). Patcher-level (patch-component --component kernel-jb on the
pristine 26.4 kernelcache): finds 0x1AB0654 cbz w0 -> b 0x1ab0564, emits record
container_manager_upcall_force_success, byte-identical to the on-device-validated
host-poke.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
iOS 27 userland on the 26.4 vphone600 kernel booted with a working GUI over the
in-guest TrollVNC capturer, but the normal vphone-cli window (the host VZ view)
stayed black. Root cause, proven at the instruction level in the 27.0 DSC
IOMobileFramebuffer: the host VZVirtualMachineView is fed by the guest
AppleParavirtGPU scanout, which the 26.4 kernel drives ONLY from the IOMFB
userclient SwapEnd (external method 5) -- the `_kern_Swap*` path that 26.x used
(and that the SwapEnd size patch fixed on 26.0/18.x). iOS 27 defaults the
paravirt display's present to IOMFB's parallel `_virt_Swap*` path: `_virt_SwapEnd`
performs no userclient call -- it invokes an in-process callback and hands the
composited IOSurface to a virtual-display consumer -- so frames never enter the
kernel userclient and the paravirt GPU never scans out (live AppleParavirtGPU
scheduler sat idle). TrollVNC still saw frames because it captures the composited
surface in-guest, independent of the paravirt scanout.
Fix = force the display's present back onto the kern/method-5 path, in two halves:
Userland (DSC), new patcher cfw_patch_iomfb_force_kern.py (cfw.py +
cfw_install.sh, 27-gated): the public `_IOMobileFramebufferSwap*` entrypoints are
thin dispatch trampolines (`cbz x0; ldr xN,[x0,#slot]; cbz xN; braaz xN`) that
tail-call a per-connection swap fp (kern or virt impl). Rewrite each trampoline's
first instruction to `b _kern_Swap<Name>` -- args untouched, so this is
behaviourally identical to the connection having selected the kern fp. Fully
dynamic: public + `_kern_` addrs resolved by name via `ipsw dyld symaddr`,
trampoline shape verified by Capstone, branch bytes from the Keystone `asm_at()`
helper, modified DSC code pages re-attested. Runtime: 31 entrypoints retargeted,
4 non-trampoline setters left on virt, required {SwapBegin,SwapEnd,SwapSetLayer}
present.
Kernel (KernelJBPatchIomfbSwap, re-enabled in KernelJBPatcher.findAll): iOS 27's
native SwapEnd struct is 0x6e0 bytes (26.x sent 0x588) and the 26.4 userclient
exact-checks 0x588 in two places, so method 5 would return kIOReturnBadArgument.
patchIomfbSwapEndVariableSize flips the dispatch-table checkStructureInputSize
0x588 -> kIOUCVariableStructureSize; patchIomfbSwapEndHandlerSize retargets the
handler's internal `cmp w2,#0x588` -> #0x6e0. 27's IOMFBSwapRec prefix matches
26.x, so the paravirt swap handler reads valid fields. patchParavirtDisplayPrimary
stays disabled (wrong theory, harmful -- see JB-02c).
Validated on-device (17,3_27.0_24A5380h + cloudOS 26.4 c0ecdb4b, JB): clean boot,
no kIOReturnBadArgument / SwapEnd rejection / SECURITY_POLICY kill / panic, and
the iOS 27 userland now renders AND is interactive in the native VZ view.
research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md: DSC-patch item 9 corrected (27 no longer
size-truncated), new item 11 (force-kern), JB-26/27 rows added, all marked
validated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
iOS 27 userland on the 26.4 vphone600 kernel had SpringBoard crash-looping
with no display. Root cause: the IOKit user-client open path runs TWO
independent MAC gates -- a MACF-aggregator check (already patched by
patchIoucFailedMacf) and a separate Sandbox check -- and the Sandbox gate
spuriously DENIES the render server (backboardd) its opens of
IOMobileFramebufferUserClient / IOSurfaceRootUserClient / IOHIDEventService.
27-specific: absent on a native 26.4 userland. Denied the framebuffer,
backboardd can't present (no Apple logo) and vends no main display, so
FBSDisplayMonitor asserts on a nil mainDisplay -> crash-loop.
Add patchIoucFailedSandbox (KernelJBPatchIoucSandbox.swift), mirroring
patchIoucFailedMacf: anchor on the "IOUC %s failed sandbox in process %s"
string, find the deny block (the CBNZ target enclosing the fail-log ADRP),
and rewrite its first instruction with an unconditional B to the
NotPermitted allow-proceed target. Structural anchors only, no hardcoded
offsets. No-op where the gate already allows (native 26.x userlands).
Verified: backboardd opens the framebuffer, SpringBoard runs (0 crashes),
display enumerates (LCD/primary), [CADisplay mainDisplay] resolves, and the
guest GUI renders (confirmed visible over VNC).
Disable three earlier wrong-theory display patches (kept in-tree, off in
findAll, for the record):
- patchParavirtDisplayPrimary: setting primary=1 is actively HARMFUL on 27
-- it becomes the display NAME suffix ("primary-1") and breaks the render
server's exact-name match.
- patchIomfbSwapEnd{VariableSize,HandlerSize}: iOS 27 never uses IOMFB
method 5 (SwapEnd) for present -- confirmed by kernel trace of the real
handler (cmp w2,#0x588) with SpringBoard actively presenting -- so these
are irrelevant on 27 and would break 26.x's native 0x588 SwapEnd.
SwapEnd userland DSC size patch made per-base (cfw_install*, cfw.py,
cfw_patch_iomfb_swapend.py): 26.x validated, harmless on 27.
research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md updated (JB-10b added for the sandbox
gate; JB-02c corrected to disabled/wrong-theory).
Still open: the normal (VZ) render path stays black even though the guest
presents (VNC works) -- 27 uses a present mechanism the 26.4 paravirt-GPU
path doesn't receive. Tracked separately for follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Running iOS 27.0 userland on the 26.4 vphone600 kernel, every core platform
daemon (backboardd, cfprefsd, containermanagerd, locationd, CommCenter, ...)
died 3-5ms after xpcproxy spawn with exit reason namespace 9 / code 0x8
(OS_REASON_EXEC / EXEC_EXIT_REASON_SECURITY_POLICY). launchd throttled the
respawns and the boot deadlocked (all CPUs idle) before SpringBoard — no UI,
no networking. Root cause: AMFI's exec MAC hooks reject the 27.0 binaries'
code-sign validation category on the 26.4 kernel, setting imgp->ip_mac_return,
and XNU's exec path (kern_exec.c) SIGKILLs on `if (imgp->ip_mac_return != 0)`.
patch_exec_security_policy_kill flips the `cbz wN, <skip>` guard preceding the
os_reason_create(9,8) call to an unconditional `b <skip>`, making the kill block
unreachable — downstream of AMFI/TXM, so it covers the validation-category
reject regardless of which hook set the verdict. Anchored structurally (movz
w0,#9 ; movz w1,#8 preceded by ldr wN,[xM,#imm] ; cbz wN,<fwd>; W-register cbz
distinguishes the ip_mac_return site from the subsystem-root sibling). No-op in
effect for version-matched userlands (ip_mac_return == 0, so the cbz already
skips). Wired into the JB Group C dispatcher.
Validated on iPhone17,3_27.0_24A5380h + cloudOS 26.4 (c0ecdb4b): 0 SECURITY_POLICY
kills, core daemons launch, networking + SSH (dropbear :22222) come up. Remaining
gate: sandbox denies backboardd the IOMobileFramebuffer/IOSurface user clients,
so SpringBoard traps in FBSDisplayMonitor init (no display) -> UI not up yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
iOS 27.0's dyld shared cache (~5.95 GiB span) plus its 512 MiB header maxSlide
overflows the vphone600 26.x kernel's fixed 6 GiB shared region
(SHARED_REGION_SIZE_ARM64 = 0x180000000). At map time the kernel reserves
span + maxSlide, so _shared_region_map_and_slide returns ENOMEM, dyld cannot map
libSystem, and launchd (pid 1) panics at boot ("initproc failed to start").
Add cfw_patch_dsc_maxslide: zero the dyld_cache_header maxSlide (@0xF0) in the
main chunk when span + maxSlide exceeds the region, so the cache maps at slide 0
(iOS 27.0 fits with ~58 MiB spare). Self-gating (no-op for 26.x/18.x, which fit
with full slide) and no page re-attestation (header metadata, not a cs_validate'd
code page). Wired into cfw_install.sh after the IOMFB SwapEnd gate, so it applies
to regular/jb/exp (jb/exp run cfw_install.sh as their base).
Validated on iPhone17,3_27.0_24A5380h userland + cloudOS 26.4 (c0ecdb4b) JB:
dyld cache maps system-wide, launchd reaches first unlock, vphoned connects as
iOS 27.0.0, 0 panics.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
On a published GitHub Release, build vphone-cli.app on macos-26 via
`make bundle` (ad-hoc codesign + sources/vphone.entitlements, matching a
local build), verify the private virtualization entitlement is embedded,
then zip and upload the app as a release asset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Sync the localized READMEs (ja/ko/zh) tested-environment tables to match
README.md: add the Mac16,11 27.0b2 / 17,3_18.6.2_22G100 / 26.1-23B85 row
and drop the redundant Mac16,8 26.5.1 / 17,3_26.1_23B85 entry.
Note in all four READMEs that GPU/Metal acceleration does not work on
iOS 18.x -- the 18.x Metal/IOGPU framework has no paravirtualized GPU
implementation, so Metal-rendered content (web, images, wallpaper) does
not render; touch, networking, and apps work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q7gbWrtKLu8rFGmpXHmu9t
iOS 18.6.2 userland on the 26.1 vphone600 kernel has no working DNS: the
guest gets a correct resolver config (DHCP hands out 192.168.64.1, which
configd propagates to State:/Network/Global/DNS) and the path works (raw
UDP DNS to the gateway succeeds), but getaddrinfo fails EAI_NONAME because
mDNSResponder crash-loops. Every crash is identical: EXC_BREAKPOINT in
os_channel_create_extended, hit from Network.framework flow setup
(nw_channel_create_with_attributes). That is a skywalk userspace-channel
trap: the 26.1 kernel advertises skywalk, Network.framework tries to create
a flowswitch channel for its DNS flow, the channel-create syscall trips a
fatal trap in the 18.6.2 libsystem_kernel, and the resolver daemon dies.
26.x userland handles this path; 18.6.2 does not.
Fix: set boot-arg if_attach_nx=0x3 (SKYWALK_NETWORKING_BSD_ONLY =
IF_ATTACH_NX_NETIF_COMPAT | IF_ATTACH_NX_FLOWSWITCH) on iOS 18 bases. This
keeps the netif + flowswitch nexus (interface/host stack unaffected) but
leaves the FSW_TRANSPORT/IP netagents unset, so Network.framework uses the
BSD-socket path and mDNSResponder never creates the crashing channel. The
kernel boot-args come from the patched iBoot (kern.bootargs matches
IBootPatcher.bootArgs), so the arg is baked into the iBEC/LLB boot-args
patch, not the host NVRAM (which iBoot overrides).
- IBootPatcher gains `extraBootArgs`, inserted before the trailing %s in
the patched boot-args string (ibec/llb).
- FirmwarePipeline sets extraBootArgs="if_attach_nx=0x3" for iOS 18 bases
(iosBaseIs18), empty otherwise, on the iBEC and LLB factories.
Gated to iOS 18 bases: 26.x keeps the stock boot-args and is untouched.
Validated at runtime first (setting net.link.generic.system.enable_netagent
=0 makes DNS resolve reliably), then confirmed end-to-end on a fresh
17,3_18.6.2_22G100 jb restore: kern.bootargs shows if_attach_nx=0x3 and
DNS/networking works.
Documented in research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md (iBEC/LLB boot-args row).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q7gbWrtKLu8rFGmpXHmu9t
iOS 18.x userland on the 26.1 vphone600 kernel has no working touch: the
VZ USB touchscreen dext receives input reports (InputReportCount climbs)
but emits zero digitizer events on the 26.1 kernel, so backboardd's event
queue stays empty and the UI never sees touches. The identical device on
a 26.x base produces digitizer events normally, so it is a guest-side
dext<->kernel report->event ABI break, not a host or descriptor issue.
Fix: inject digitizer events guest-side via vphoned, bypassing the broken
dext -- the same IOHIDEventSystemClientDispatchEvent path vphoned already
uses for the Home key. vp_hid_touch() builds a Hand parent + digitizer
finger child event (display-integrated) and dispatches it.
- vphoned_hid.{h,m}: vp_hid_touch(phase,x,y) + digitizer dlsyms.
- vphoned.m: "touch" command; hello now reports the guest iOS version and
a "touch" capability.
- VPhoneControl: sendTouch(), guestIOSVersion, and useGuestTouchInjection
(connected && caps has "touch" && iOS major < 26).
- VPhoneVirtualMachineView.sendTouchEvent: routes to vphoned when
useGuestTouchInjection, else the native VZ USB multitouch path.
Gated to iOS 18 bases: 26.x guests report major >= 26, so the gate is
false and touch uses the unchanged native USB path (no regression). The
new vphoned code is compiled into all builds but stays inert on 26.x.
Ships via the existing vphoned hash-mismatch auto-update; no re-restore.
Verified on 17,3_18.6.2_22G100: socket tap -> correct digitizer event
(coordinates match), swipe unlocks to home, tap on the Settings icon
launches Settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q7gbWrtKLu8rFGmpXHmu9t
iOS 18.6.2 userland on the 26.1 vphone600 kernel crash-loops
runningboardd and SpringBoard, so the UI never takes over from the boot
logo. Crash reports show EXC_GUARD / GUARD_TYPE_MACH_PORT "flavor 10":
the 26.1 kernel fatally enforces a Mach port guard that iOS 18's older
userland trips (hardening the 18.x daemons predate).
The existing patchExcGuardBehavior() (kernel patch 27,
thread_guard_violation -> RET) fixes exactly this but was gated to the
dev variant only. Wire it to also apply on regular/jb/exp when the
iPhone base is iOS 18:
- FirmwarePipeline reads the base ProductVersion from
iPhone-BuildManifest.plist (fw_prepare preserves it; the live
BuildManifest reads the cloudOS 26.1 version, not the base) and sets
applyExcGuard for 18.* bases.
- KernelPatcher gains an applyExcGuard flag; patch 27 now runs when
isDev || applyExcGuard.
Scoped to iOS 18 bases only — 26.x bases boot without it, never set
applyExcGuard, and are unaffected. Validated on 17,3_18.6.2_22G100:
fw_patch_jb logs "iPhone base iOS: 18.6.2 (enabling ...)" and applies
thread_guard_violation -> RET at foff 0xB4FFCC. With this plus the
display SwapEnd fix, 18.6.2 boots to the Setup Assistant UI with
runningboardd and SpringBoard stable.
The keystore AppleSEPKeyStore sel-135 UnsupportedMode seen during
bring-up turned out to be non-fatal (tolerated by the CredentialManager)
and is not needed for boot, so no keystore patch is included.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
iOS 18.6.2 userland on the 26.1 vphone600 kernel hits the same
IOMobileFramebuffer SwapEnd ABI mismatch as 26.0/26.0.1: userland sends
a smaller external-method-5 SwapEnd state than the 0x560 the userclient
expects, so SwapEnd returns kIOReturnBadArgument and the host VZ display
stays black (the guest still renders — the Apple logo is visible over
VNC, just not in the vphone-cli view). 18.6.2 sends 0x514 (26.0 sent
0x548).
cfw_patch_iomfb_swapend is already semantic + idempotent (it discovers
the source immediate and rewrites it to 0x560), so no patcher change is
needed — only the install-time gate. Extend the gate in cfw_install.sh
and cfw_install_dev.sh to fire when ProductVersion starts with 18. as
well as 26.0.
Scoped to those versions only: 26.1/26.3/26.4/26.5 match neither branch
of the gate and are unaffected. Document the widened scope in
research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md (patch row 9).
Part of ongoing iPhone17,3 18.6.2 + cloudOS 26.1 bring-up. Validated on
17,3_18.6.2_22G100: the Apple logo now renders in the vphone-cli view.
Full boot to the UI additionally needs two kernelcache fixes (keystore
sel-135 force-success and the mach-port EXC_GUARD disable) that are
validated at runtime but not yet folded into KernelPatcher — those will
be gated to iOS 18 bases so the working 26.x variants stay untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Fetch debs listed in debs.list into a cached debs/ dir (skipping already
-cached files, honoring manually-added ones), stage the whole cache into
the per-boot preboot dir alongside Sileo, and install on first boot.
- fetch_debs.sh: manifest fetch, atomic download, non-fatal on failure,
chowns cache back to invoking user under sudo
- cfw_install_jb.sh / cfw_install_exp.sh: fetch + stage into $BOOT_HASH/debs
- vphone_jb_setup.sh (5b): idempotent install — skip packages already at
>= the staged version, install the rest in one dpkg -i so inter-package
deps resolve in a single pass
- debs.list tracked manifest; debs/ cache gitignored
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The ramdisk-based install (build/send an SSH ramdisk, iproxy-forward, then
push CFW files over SSH and flip the boot snapshot with snaputil in-VM) has
been fully replaced by the host-mount path: cfw_install_host.sh mounts the
VM's Disk.img on the host, places every file locally, and flips the boot
snapshot offline via tools/apfs_snap_rename.py. This removes all remaining
ramdisk generation, delivery, and usage — no legacy fallback.
Deleted:
- scripts/ramdisk_build.py, scripts/ramdisk_send.sh
Renamed:
- scripts/cfw_host_mode.sh -> scripts/cfw_transport.sh (was a conditional
"host-mode override"; now the sole, unconditionally-sourced transport)
setup_machine.sh: drop the USE_RAMDISK_CFW=1 branch and every iproxy/ramdisk
helper (usbmux UDID resolution, port picking, start/stop iproxy, wait-for-
ramdisk-ssh), all RAMDISK_*/IPROXY_* vars, the cleanup() iproxy handling, and
the orphaned cfw_install_target var. Only the host-mount cfw_install_host call
remains.
cfw_install{,_dev,_jb,_exp}.sh: delete the SSH transport (SSH_* vars, SSH_OPTS,
sshpass prereq/_sshpass/_ssh_retry, ssh_cmd/scp_to/scp_from/remote_file_exists/
remote_mount, wait_for_device_ssh_ready) and the dead ramdisk-mechanism body
blocks (snaputil snapshot flip, dropbearkey host-key pre-generation, halt-over-
SSH, CFW_SKIP_HALT). The transport is now sourced unconditionally from
cfw_transport.sh. dropbear -R generates host keys at first boot; the offline
apfs_snap_rename.py does the boot-source flip. Dropped the vestigial
CFW_HOST_MODE gate.
Also: pymobiledevice3_bridge.py (ramdisk-send command already gone), Makefile
(ramdisk targets/help/IRECOVERY_ECID removed), README + ja/ko/zh (install flow
rewritten to host-mount), AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md architecture tree, and stale
comments in vphone_jb_setup.sh, VPhoneCLI.swift, apfs_snap_rename.py,
cfw_patch_post_restore_dt.py.
Verified booting via make setup_machine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XZVS9oqVNmHJzpb8mFtKJx
Replace the "Ramdisk + CFW phase" (boot_dfu + ramdisk_build/send + iproxy
+ wait_ssh + cfw_install*) with cfw_install_host run after the restore
phase, while the VM is off. The legacy ramdisk path is kept behind
USE_RAMDISK_CFW=1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XZVS9oqVNmHJzpb8mFtKJx
Add a host-mount install path that replaces the DFU + ramdisk_send +
iproxy + SSH transport: mount the VM's Disk.img volumes on the host, place
every CFW file locally, then flip the boot snapshot offline
(tools/apfs_snap_rename.py). The resulting VM is identical to the
ramdisk-installed one, minus the round-trips.
- cfw_host_mode.sh: sourced by cfw_install*.sh when CFW_HOST_MODE=1;
overrides ssh_cmd/scp_to/scp_from/remote_mount/remote_file_exists to run
locally against volumes mounted at $CFW_HOST_MNT/mnt{1,3,5} (host / is
read-only, so device /mntN tokens are remapped), routes /usr/bin/tar to
gtar (bsdtar lacks the GNU flags), and skips snaputil/dropbearkey/halt.
- cfw_install{,_dev,_jb,_exp}.sh: source the shim after their helper defs
(host-mode is opt-in; the SSH path is unchanged). Also reword progress
messages that assumed the ramdisk/SSH flow ("~3 minutes" scp, "to
device", "Reboot the device") to read correctly in both modes.
- cfw_install_host.sh + `make cfw_install_host VARIANT=regular|dev|jb|exp`:
attach the image, run the chosen installer under CFW_HOST_MODE as root,
detach, and run the offline snapshot flip. Restores ownership of the
host-side artifacts it creates (vm/.vphoned.signed, .cfw_temp, ...) to
the invoking user afterward, so a later user-run `make boot` isn't
blocked by root-owned files.
Runs as root (owners-honored mounts / chown / cp) via a sudo re-exec. No
authenticated-root/ARV change needed; mount_apfs -o rw honors owners.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XZVS9oqVNmHJzpb8mFtKJx
Renames the com.apple.os.update-<hash> system snapshot in place on a
powered-off Disk.img so the patched guest kernel boots the live volume
instead of the sealed snapshot -- same effect as in-VM snaputil, but done
offline on the host (no mount, no fs_snapshot syscall, no kernel/ARV gate,
no host security change).
The name lives in two b-tree records (snap_metadata value + snap_name
key), normally one leaf node; a same-length rename preserves name_len and
single-snapshot b-tree order, so only that block's APFS fletcher64
changes. Auto-detects the snapshot in valid b-tree blocks (ignores
identical strings baked into on-volume binaries); --dry-run, idempotent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XZVS9oqVNmHJzpb8mFtKJx
When SUDO_PASSWORD is supplied, setup_machine.sh exports SUDO_ASKPASS.
Previously hdiutil ran unprivileged first (cfw_install.sh, ramdisk_build.py)
or via plain interactive sudo (cfw_install_dev/exp.sh), both of which
triggered a password prompt.
Now, when SUDO_ASKPASS is present, hdiutil goes straight to `sudo -A` so it
never runs unprivileged first and never prompts. When it is absent, every
call site keeps its original behavior verbatim.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The 26.5 Shape B W^X matcher (mov #5 -> #7) mis-targets vm_map.c:6202
`prot &= ~VM_PROT_WRITE` -- the copy-on-write-preservation write-strip --
instead of the RWX/ALLEXEC gate at vm_map.c:5997. Widening it keeps write on
code-page protections, so a debugger's breakpoint write lands a writable PTE on
the code frame; SPTM rejects that (VIOLATION_ILLEGAL_MAP, page_fte->type=0xf),
killing any debugged process on 26.4+.
Isolation confirmed: with cs_bypass (patch_vm_fault_enter_prepare) left enabled
and Shape B disabled, the debugger works -- Shape B was the sole cause.
Retired on 26.5+ (not retargeted): on SPTM, code modification uses write-then-flip
via vm_protect(VM_PROT_COPY) -> XNU_USER_DEBUG. The debugger, MobileSubstrate
tweaks, and the JB's own plugins (vcc_patch_two_nops in libvcamcaptured.m) all use
this path; none need non-MAP_JIT RWX. Shape A (26.1-26.4, the real ALLEXEC gate)
is unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Inject launchdhook into pid 1 by default again for JB/EXP; set
DISABLE_LAUNCHD_HOOK=1 to skip. Also fixes a doubled-prefix typo in
cfw_install_exp.sh that made the previous env flag unreadable there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The ramdisk-time host-key pre-seed added in c6ed3a1 invoked
/mnt1/iosbinpack64/usr/local/bin/dropbearkey, an iPhone-Distribution-signed
third-party binary. Inside the SSH ramdisk its cdhash is in no active trust
cache, so AMFI SIGKILLs it (exit 137), aborting cfw_install_jb/dev.
Use the ramdisk's own /usr/local/bin/dropbearkey (from ssh.tar.gz, re-signed
and trustcached at build time), which runs and writes fresh keys to the same
Data-volume target. The first-boot generator in vphone_jb_setup.sh is
unaffected — it runs in the JB'd kernel where the iosbinpack64 binary is valid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
setup_machine now runs non-interactive by default (auto-continue first-boot
stages + boot analysis). Pass INTERACTIVE=1 to restore the live prompts.
The old NON_INTERACTIVE external knob is dropped; it remains only as the
internal computed flag the first-boot prompts read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
test_jb_kernel_patches.sh only exercises the `kernel-jb` component, so it can't
see drift in the boot chain (iBSS/iBEC/LLB), the base KernelPatcher, TXM, or
DeviceTree — where real 26.x builds silently skipped sub-patches.
Add test_firmware_patches.sh (`make test_fw_patches`): runs the full
patch-firmware pipeline for the jb and exp variants over each locally-prepared
cloudOS firmware (assembled into a disposable VM dir; ipsws/ is never mutated)
and fails on any component that emits a `[-]` line. Because patchAll() only
throws on a zero-patch component, a partial skip never changes the exit code —
so the gate scans stdout for `[-]`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
The patch-16 entitlement-gate matcher keyed on source line IDs
(`mov w8, #0x332D / #0x333B`); on 26.4 both the value and the register drifted,
so it found nothing and silently skipped (worked on 26.1/26.3).
Re-anchor the deny blocks on their stable panic strings ("This operation needs
entitlement" and "lookup takes place out of a volume group, but the source
volume is in one"), scoped to the routine by also requiring the
`handle_get_dev_by_role` function-name string — this excludes the adjacent
`handle_volume_class_keybag_op`, which shares the entitlement message. Yields the
same 3 gates on 26.1/26.3 (parity) and now 3 on 26.4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Two pre-existing iBoot patches silently skipped on some cloudOS versions
(verified by cross-version disassembly of the vresearch101 iBEC/LLB payloads):
- bootx precondition (iBEC): the `BL <bit-getter>; TBZ w0,#0 -> panic` construct
is a 26.4+ iBoot addition and is genuinely absent on 26.1/26.3 (which boot fine
without it). Treat "construct not present" as an informational skip, not a
failure; ambiguity (>1 gate) still hard-fails.
- LLB rootfs size gate: the bare `cmp x8, #0x400` is not unique — 26.4 LLB has
three (only one is the size gate, the other two are followed by `b.hi`). Anchor
on the `cmp x8,#0x400 ; b.hs` pair, unique on 26.1/26.3/26.4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
The 26.5 implementation embedded multiple build-specific values:
- a hardcoded byte offset 1056 to find `_sSourceList`
- a hardcoded stack-frame offset (#576) in the per-source filter scan
- hardcoded ivar offsets 0x08/0x18/0x10/0x18/0x48 on
BWFigCaptureDevice / BWFigCaptureStream
- hardcoded image VMAs 0x1ae6ff05c, 0x1ae2bd414, 0x1ae2c353c for
three error-suppression byte-patches
- two `#if 0` blocks pinning more 0x1ae* VMAs
Refactor every site to a runtime-resolved equivalent.
1. _sSourceList: structural ARM64 anchor chain rooted at the exported
FigCaptureSourceServerStart symbol — every link is a stable pattern
that survives DSC byte-offset shifts, stub-call layout changes, and
LC_SYMTAB local-symbol stripping:
FigCaptureSourceServerStart (exported, retained on every build)
walk for `cmn x?, #0x1 ; b.ne <wrapper>` (onceToken check)
wrapper (single-insn `bl <cold.1>` site)
cold.1 (static helper; 5-6 instructions)
`adrp x1, ... ; add x1, x1, #imm` (block-constant addr)
block constant (struct __Block_literal in __DATA_CONST)
+0x10 = invoke pointer (PAC-stripped) = dispatch_once body
init block-invoke
walk for `bl <X> ; adrp + str x0, [Xn, #imm]` pairs
(each "store fn result
into a static global")
pick the first slot whose stored value is a heap CFArray
(filters the lock-store
at #0 — that's a void*
mutex handle, not an
array)
LC_SYMTAB is still consulted first as a fast deterministic path for
builds that happen to retain `_sSourceList` as a regular nlist entry;
the structural chain is what actually fires on stock 26.1/26.3.1/26.5
DSCs (which strip static data symbols).
2. Per-source filter LDR x2 anchor: mask the imm12, accepting any
sp-relative 64-bit load into x2 regardless of the compiler-chosen
stack-frame slot.
3. BWFigCaptureDevice / BWFigCaptureStream ivar offsets: resolved at
synth-class init via class_getInstanceVariable + ivar_getOffset on
the parent class. Required ivars (deviceID, portType, uniqueID)
abort class registration on miss; the streaming BOOL is optional
(skip the YES poke instead of aborting). New vcc_resolve_ivar
helper walks a NULL-terminated candidate-name list to tolerate
underscore-prefix convention differences.
4. -[FigCaptureCameraSourcePipeline requiresMasterClock] prologue:
resolved via LC_SYMTAB by name (two underscore-prefix variants),
PAC-stripped, gated on a `pacibsp` insn1 sanity anchor before
rewriting to `mov w0, #0 ; ret`. The function isn't in the ObjC
method table on observed builds (so class_replaceMethod won't
intercept) — the byte-patch is the only working path.
5. _cs_addObjectToStreamsAttributes and -[BWFigVideoCaptureStream
initWithCaptureStream:…] -12783 bail sites: both prepare the
OSStatus via MOVN encodings (0x12863dd4 for w20, 0x12863dc8 for
w8). The new vcc_scan_and_patch helper finds every occurrence of
each encoding in __text and rewrites it to MOVZ #0. -12783 is a
capture-specific OSStatus and the daemon's only consumer in the
VM is the synth source, so over-application is benign.
Validator fixes (kept from the original 26.1/26.5 work):
- arm64e ISA class-pointer mask: 0x00007FFFFFFFFFF8 (44-bit class
field, bits 3-46) per libobjc's ISA_MASK. The previous mask
captured bit 47 (magic-signature region), so two pointers to the
same class produced different masked values when bit 47 differed.
- Pointer dereferences during slot validation gated by
`malloc_zone_from_ptr` so a stale/bogus heap pointer in a
candidate slot can't trap the daemon during init. (vm_read /
vm_read_overwrite were considered but cameracaptured's sandbox
returns KERN_DENIED on intra-task vm_read on iOS 26.x.)
Helpers in scripts/vcamcaptured/libvcamcaptured.m:
vcc_safe_read_ptr pointer-read wrapper
vcc_slot_value_is_cfarray malloc_zone + ISA-class check
vcc_collect_call_then_store_globals walk a function body for
"BL <X>; adrp + str x0,
[Xn, #imm]" pairs
vcc_resolve_ivar class_getInstanceVariable
wrapper with candidate-name list
vcc_scan_and_patch __text scan + per-occurrence
vcc_patch_word wrapper
VCC_ISA_CLASS_MASK arm64e 44-bit class-pointer mask
The two dead `#if 0` byte-patch blocks (referencing 0x1ae2b5284 and
0x1ae2b4c90, with the captureSession_buildGraphWithConfiguration
thumbnail / preview-sink bail-bypass commentary) are removed along
with their explanatory comments. scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh's
comment that mistakenly described a non-existent "Patch #6" inside
_captureSourceServer_handleCopySourcesMessage is rewritten to
describe the actual DSC patches (NU short-circuit + AVF authorization,
both already version-agnostic via `ipsw dyld symaddr`).
Validated end-to-end on:
iOS 26.1 build 23B85
iOS 26.3.1
iOS 26.5 build 23F77
All three return the same `vphone:vcam:0` synthetic camera as the
default video device and deliver real JPEG frames through the modern
AVCapturePhoto delegate path in continuitycaptured / Camera.app.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
Replace the two giant hardcoded selectors (the 27-arg AVCapturePhoto
init and the 32-arg +resolvedSettingsWithUniqueID:… factory) with a
prefix-lookup + label-driven NSInvocation builder. This survives
Apple adding or removing args between iOS releases without code
changes: the discovered selector decides arg count and order, the
resolver block fills the args we care about by label
("timestamp", "photoSurface", "uniqueID", "photoDimensions", etc.),
and unknown labels get nil/zero from the runtime type encoding.
cfx_find_selector_by_prefix(cls, prefix, classMethod)
Walks class_copyMethodList on cls (or its metaclass for class
methods), returns the matching selector with the most colons.
Highest-arg-count match wins so a future Apple revision that
adds a new arg in the middle is still found.
cfx_normalize_first_label(NSString *)
Strips "initWith" / "resolvedSettingsWith" and lowercases the
first char of the remainder so the leading component matches
the same label convention as the rest of the selector.
cfx_invoke_with_labeled_args(target, selector, resolver)
Builds the NSInvocation, iterates selector components, calls
the resolver block once per arg with (label, typeEnc, outBuf).
Block writes the value via the appropriate cast (CMTime,
IOSurfaceRef, __unsafe_unretained id, NSInteger, etc.) or
leaves outBuf zeroed.
Builders refactored:
- cfx_build_resolved_settings now fills only uniqueID +
photoDimensions + previewDimensions; everything else stays
zero/nil (Apple's impl tolerates that on builds where the
factory itself works at all).
- cfx_build_avcapturephoto_with_request fills timestamp,
photoSurface, photoSurfaceSize, processedFileType, metadata,
captureRequest, sequenceCount, photoCount, sourceDeviceType.
Every other surface/dictionary arg defaults to nil.
End state: net +169/-96 lines, zero hardcoded full selectors,
photo synthesis remains functionally identical on 26.5 and is
prepared for arg-list drift on future iOS revisions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
Universal injection mechanism: any process where AVFoundation is
loaded (Camera.app, continuitycaptured, third-party apps, system
daemons — anything dyld pulls AVF into) automatically gets libcamfix
via TweakLoader. No per-bundle plist filter, no allowlist entries.
scripts/tweakloader/TweakLoader.m
New Filter.Frameworks key. A tweak's plist may list framework
names; TweakLoader matches the path containing
"/<name>.framework/". Already-loaded frameworks trigger an immediate
dlopen; not-yet-loaded frameworks register a
_dyld_register_func_for_add_image callback that fires when the
named framework appears.
Two-tier engagement:
- Framework-filtered tweaks scan + schedule in EVERY process,
self-limiting at runtime. Cost in non-AVF processes is one
dir scan + a few plist parses + one callback registration.
- Non-framework tweaks (Bundles/Executables or no filter) keep
the existing .app/+kVPhoneAllowedDaemonPaths gate so we don't
drop arbitrary tweaks into launch-critical daemons.
CRITICAL safety: dyld invokes add-image callbacks SYNCHRONOUSLY
inside its loader lock. dlopen from within that callback recurses
and can deadlock or crash early daemons. The actual dlopen is
handed off to a background queue (dispatch_async) so it runs after
dyld is idle.
Defensive: each per-tweak block is @try/@catch wrapped so a
malformed plist or Foundation quirk in an early-boot daemon can't
crash the process and trigger a launchd respawn loop.
scripts/camfix/libcamfix.m
Constructor no longer eagerly installs hooks. Instead registers a
_dyld_register_func_for_add_image callback and installs hooks the
first time AVFCapture's mach header is observed (idempotent via
dispatch_once). Whether libcamfix loads before or after AVFCapture,
hooks land exactly once.
cfx_capturePhoto_hook now drives the MODERN
-[<AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate> captureOutput:
didFinishProcessingPhoto:error:] path in addition to the deprecated
CMSampleBuffer one. The synthesized AVCapturePhoto uses nil
captureRequest (there's no CAMCaptureEngine outside Camera.app —
msgSend to nil during init returns 0 safely). Photos tagged with
associated JPEG/CGImage so fileDataRepresentation /
CGImageRepresentation return our bytes regardless of which delegate
protocol the client implements.
scripts/camfix/libcamfix.plist
Filter.Frameworks = ["AVFoundation"]. Replaces the previous
Bundles=["com.apple.camera"] filter.
scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh
build_libcamfix install_name reverted to /var/jb/Library/
MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries/libcamfix.dylib (TweakLoader
location). [JB-4.2] deploys dylib + plist together.
Verified on fresh `make setup_machine` install of 26.5:
- 373+ distinct AVF-using processes auto-load libcamfix at boot,
including watchdogd / amfid / backboardd / SpringBoard /
cameracaptured / continuitycaptured.
- Camera.app: preview live, photos save, shutter works past
many consecutive captures.
- continuitycaptured: a vanilla AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate
using the documented capturePhotoWithSettings:delegate: API gets
a real 1280x720 JFIF JPEG via the modern delegate path.
- Full reboot cycle stable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
libcamfix.dylib is loaded into Camera.app (com.apple.camera) by
TweakLoader (the .app/-rule covers Camera.app automatically; the plist
filters to Bundles=[com.apple.camera]). It bridges the vphone shm
frames from libvcamcaptured into Camera.app's normal photo + preview
pipeline so the user can take real photos via the standard shutter.
Hooks (only fire for connections backed by AVCaptureDevice uid
"vphone:vcam:0"):
- _setActiveFormat: substitute device.formats.firstObject when
the session-preset->format lookup hands us a
nil format (would otherwise throw at launch).
- capturePhoto deliver a CMSampleBuffer (built from shm) via
the deprecated didFinishProcessingPhotoSample
delegate path — kept for test harnesses that
use the documented AVCapturePhotoOutput API.
- beginMomentCapture / commitMomentCaptureToPhotoWithUniqueID:
Camera.app's actual shutter path. Skip orig
(would throw), stash the delegate at begin,
drive a synthesized AVCapturePhoto at commit.
- cancelMomentCaptureWithUniqueID: no-op (orig would throw).
- AVCaptureSession _setRunning: / _setInterrupted: setters swallowed
for vcam-bound sessions, and isRunning /
isInterrupted getters force YES / NO so
Camera.app's "preview live" poll keeps the
viewfinder visible past ~4-5 s.
- AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer: scan UIApplication.windows at 1 Hz
for layers bound to a vcam session and pump
CGImage frames into layer.contents at 30 Hz.
- AVCapturePhoto fileDataRepresentation / CGImageRepresentation:
when the photo we synthesized is the receiver,
return the JPEG / CGImage we built from shm
instead of asking the (non-existent) photo
surface to encode itself.
- CAMStillImageCaptureRequest: dynamically add three stubs
(resolvedSettings, unresolvedSettings,
lensStabilizationSupported) so AVCapturePhoto's
private 27-arg init does not throw on the
CAM-internal request we pass in.
Synthesized AVCapturePhoto construction:
- extract the real CAMStillImageCaptureRequest for the current uid
from CAMCaptureEngine._resultsQueueRegisteredStillImageRequests
(Camera.app's pending-photo dict),
- hand-build a minimal AVCaptureResolvedPhotoSettings via
class_createInstance + ivar writes for uniqueID + dimensions +
empty NSArray ivars (CFRetained so the dealloc chain stays valid),
- feed both into AVCapturePhoto's documented 27-arg
initWithTimestamp:photoSurface:... via NSInvocation,
- tag the photo with the JPEG bytes via objc_setAssociatedObject
so the fileDataRepresentation hook returns them.
Full AVF + CAM internal delegate sequence fired at commit time:
willBeginCaptureBeforeResolvingSettingsForUniqueID,
willBeginCaptureForResolvedSettings, willCapturePhotoForResolvedSettings,
didCapturePhotoForResolvedSettings, didFinishProcessingPhoto:error:,
didFinishCaptureForResolvedSettings:error:,
_didFinishStillImageCaptureForUniqueID:error:, and crucially
captureOutput:readyForResponsiveRequestAfterResolvedSettings:.
Without that last "responsive ready" signal AVF's 2-deep pipeline
never frees its slots and Camera.app's shutter stops accepting
input after the 2nd capture.
Install wiring in scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh:
- build_libcamfix() — clang -arch arm64e -fobjc-arc -Os, frameworks
AVFoundation / CoreImage / CoreMedia / CoreVideo / Foundation /
ImageIO / IOSurface / MobileCoreServices / Photos / QuartzCore /
UIKit, ldid-signed.
- [JB-4.2] scp the dylib + plist into procursus/Library/MobileSubstrate/
DynamicLibraries (same location as libvcamcaptured) and chmod /
chown so TweakLoader picks them up on next boot.
End state: Camera.app on EXP shows live preview from the host-supplied
vcam frames, the shutter takes real photos that get saved into Photos
via Camera.app's own pipeline (no PHPhotoLibrary back-channel), and
the shutter button keeps working across many consecutive captures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
libvcamcaptured.dylib is loaded into /usr/libexec/cameracaptured via
TweakLoader and registers a synthetic FigCaptureSource backed by the
vphone shm region. From AVF's point of view there is now a normal
"vphone:vcam:0" camera device that streams BGRA frames at the
session's requested width/height.
scripts/vcamcaptured/ .gitignore (drop built .dylib),
Makefile, libvcamcaptured.m,
libvcamcaptured.plist (filter:
Executables=["cameracaptured"]).
scripts/tweakloader/TweakLoader.m add /usr/libexec/cameracaptured
to kVPhoneAllowedDaemonPaths so
TweakLoader engages in a daemon
(not just .app/) processes.
scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh build_libvcamcaptured() helper
(clang + CoreMedia/CoreVideo/
Foundation, ldid-signed) and
new [JB-4.1] section that
scp's the dylib + plist into
procursus/Library/MobileSubstrate/
DynamicLibraries.
Pairs with the host vphone-cli camera server + vphoned vcam vsock
listener already in this branch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
Guest-side counterpart to VPhoneCameraServer. vphoned runs inside
the VM and now hosts an extra vsock listener on port 1338 that
receives BGRA frames from the host and writes them into a memory-
mapped shm region at
/var/jb/var/mobile/Library/vphone-vcam-frame.shm with a packed
header (seq monotonic, width/height, bytes_per_row, pixel_format,
timestamp_ns, frame_index, pixels_length).
vphoned_vcam.h packed shm header layout + filename const.
vphoned_vcam.m VPVcamServer: accept loop, header parse,
seq-bump write, file-based debug log for
first-boot post-mortem.
vphoned.m Boot the vcam server alongside the existing
port-1337 control daemon.
Pairs with the host VPhoneCameraServer (1338 client) and the guest
libvcamcaptured (shm reader) added in the following commits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
Mac-side feeder for the virtual camera. The host generates frames
(test pattern or video file) and pushes BGRA buffers over vsock to
the guest daemon vphoned, which mirrors them into the shm region
that the in-VM libvcamcaptured + libcamfix consume.
VPhoneCameraServer @MainActor vsock client to vphoned port
1338. Reconnects on transport failure
so the host can survive guest reboots.
VPhoneFrameProducer Test-pattern (hue-rolling gradient) and
VideoFile producers; emit BGRA at the
session's requested width/height/fps.
VPhoneMenuCamera Camera menu: pick source, start/stop
the feeder, show stream status.
VPhoneMenuController/Connect/AppDelegate
Wire the menu into the existing menu
bar and start the server alongside the
other vsock services at VM boot.
End state: with a vphoned listener on the guest side, host-generated
BGRA frames appear in the shm region the camera daemon reads from.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
Three pieces of plumbing that together let Camera.app reach the
viewfinder UI on the EXP build:
1. DeviceTree: synthesize a /product/camera node so AVCaptureDevice
discovery + permission gating finds a "front" camera slot for
subsequent vcam injection (FirmwarePatcher/DeviceTreePatcher.swift).
2. DSC patch family in scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_camera_dsc.py:
- NeutrinoCore short-circuit: rewrite the five
+[_NUStyleTransfer*Processor processWithInputs:arguments:output:
error:] class methods to `mov w0, #0; ret`. Without this Camera.app
crashes inside NeutrinoCore the moment it tries to render the
style picker.
- AVCaptureDevice auth always-authorized:
+[AVCaptureDevice authorizationStatusForMediaType:] -> `mov w0, #3;
ret` (AVAuthorizationStatusAuthorized=3). Any process that probes
camera authorization gets "Authorized" without going through TCC.
3. scripts/patch_camera_userland.sh + cfw.py registration so the install
pipeline applies the two patches above against the chunked DSC during
`make cfw_install_exp`.
Camera.app now launches and shows preview UI on EXP, even though the
actual vcam pipeline is wired up by the libvcamcaptured / libcamfix
commits that follow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
Adds the final EXP-only step: rewrite the userland-visible
`ProductBuildVersion` in `SystemVersion.plist` to a chosen build
identifier. Gated on the `SPOOF_BUILD` env var — when unset/empty, the
step is skipped entirely and the build identifier stays at whatever the
IPSW shipped.
The iPhone IPSW we install from ships with build identifier `23B85`
(iOS 26.1). iOS displays this string in Settings -> General -> About ->
"Build" and exposes it through `MGCopyAnswer("BuildVersion")`,
CoreFoundation's `_CFCopyServerVersionDictionary`, App Store telemetry,
and every other framework path that reads
`/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist`.
The build identifier lives in exactly two on-device plist files. Both
are plain XML/binary plists (no Apple-side per-file signature), and
both live on volumes that are writable at install time:
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist (rootfs)
/private/preboot/Cryptexes/OS/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist (preboot)
EXP-JB-7 rewrites the `ProductBuildVersion` key in both plists to the
target value (typical: `23F77`). `ProductVersion` (`26.1`),
`ProductName` (`iPhone OS`), `BuildID`, `SystemImageID`, and
`ProductCopyright` are left untouched.
Order of operations: EXP-JB-7 runs AFTER EXP-JB-6 (post-restore DT
rewrite) so the post-restore identity work on `/mnt5` has completed
before the Cryptex's SystemVersion.plist (same volume) is touched.
Does NOT flip:
- `sysctl kern.osversion` — comes from a kernel global initialized
from boot args at boot time, not from this plist. To change it
would require rebuilding the kernelcache with a different
`OS_BUILD_VERSION` or patching the boot-args path — out of scope.
- `SystemVersionCompat.plist` — carries a legacy iOS-19 marker for
MacCatalyst-style queries; not user-visible, deliberately untouched.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_build_version.py` — host-side
plistlib-based rewriter. Auto-detects XML vs binary plist format
and preserves it on write. Idempotent — a re-run on an
already-patched plist exits without rewriting.
- `scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh` — EXP-JB-7 phase: gated on
`SPOOF_BUILD`; for each of the two plist paths it scp_from's the
file to host, runs the patcher with the target id, scp_to's the
file back. Tolerates missing-on-device with warn+continue.
Invocation:
make setup_machine EXP=1 SPOOF_BUILD=23F77
make cfw_install_exp SPOOF_BUILD=23F77
JB and DEV install scripts do NOT carry this step.
The three restore-fatal DT root properties (root `model`, root
`target-type`, root `compatible[0]`) cannot be edited at fw_patch
time because `restored_external` / iBoot's restore mode cross-checks
them against the BuildManifest's signed `SupportedProductTypes`.
Editing them in the IPSW's `devicetree.im4p` causes the restore to
fail partway through.
But the cross-check fires ONLY during installation. After restore
completes, subsequent boots validate IM4P contents against the IM4M
only, which the existing iBSS/iBEC/LLB `image4_validate_property_callback`
bypass patches accept regardless. So an additional DT edit applied
AFTER restore but BEFORE the device reboots into the rootfs is
in-policy with the project's existing trust-chain bypass.
EXP-JB-6 exploits this. While the install pipeline still has `/mnt5`
(the preboot volume) mounted on the ramdisk, `cfw_install_exp.sh`:
1. scp_from's `/mnt5/<boot-hash>/usr/standalone/firmware/devicetree.img4`
to the host.
2. Runs `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_post_restore_dt.py`, which:
- Unwraps IMG4 -> IM4P -> LZFSE-decompresses -> DT flat-binary
blob (via pyimg4).
- Rewrites three root properties:
root `model`: iPhone99,11 -> iPhone17,3
root `target-type`: VPHONE600 -> D47
root `compatible`: reorder so D47AP is first, VPHONE600AP
second (IOKit's AppleVMApple1IO platform
bind still resolves via the second
entry; userland reads only the first
for `hw.model`).
- Re-compresses LZFSE -> repacks IM4P -> repacks IMG4 with the
ORIGINAL IM4M (the per-board ticket survives — the image4
bypass already accepts any payload contents).
3. scp_to's the modified img4 back to the same path.
4. The device reboots out of ramdisk; iBoot loads the modified DT;
kernel populates `machine_info` from the new property values.
Idempotent: the patcher detects target-state-already-met and exits
without rewriting.
Userland effects on next boot:
- `sysctl hw.machine` -> "iPhone17,3" (was "iPhone99,11")
- `sysctl hw.product` -> "iPhone17,3" (was "iPhone99,11")
- `sysctl hw.model` -> "D47AP" (was "VPHONE600AP")
- Settings -> General -> About -> Model Identifier picks up the new
ProductType after the gestalt cache rebuilds.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_post_restore_dt.py` — host-side
img4 <-> IM4P <-> DT flat-binary round-trip via pyimg4. Mirrors the
DT format parser/serializer from `DeviceTreePatcher.swift`.
- `scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh` — EXP-JB-6 phase: discovers the
boot-manifest-hash via the same `get_boot_manifest_hash` helper used
by earlier install steps; tolerates a missing devicetree.img4 with
warn-and-skip. JB and DEV install scripts do NOT carry this step.
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