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Linux boots on iPhone 11 with fully custom bootloader

Announced successful boot, plans upstream patches and hardware

Jose Angel Torres and his team booted mainline Linux 7.1.0 on an iPhone 11 in October 2026, with all six A13 cores online and the full 4 GB of RAM visible. Every line from power-on to the kernel is their own code.

Updated Oct 28

Notable Quotes

That's a root shell on the device, running on hardware Apple never intended to run anything but iOS.

from Linux boots on iPhone 11 with fully custom bootloader · Updated Oct 28

There is zero Apple code in the boot path. Every line from power-on to the kernel is code we wrote.

from Linux boots on iPhone 11 with fully custom bootloader · Updated Oct 28