Successfully installed Windows 11 on iPhone 15 Pro

However, this installation is only for demonstration purposes, an interesting demonstration of the capabilities of both devices, and has no actual use value.

Specifications provided via the UTM SE PC emulator include a 1 GHz, 1-core QEMU virtual CPU and 2GB RAM.

Emulation is the imitation of a specific hardware architecture, allowing the running of hyper-specific software (such as outdated PC architectures) on platforms that support emulators.

Virtualization can be used for emulation, but it focuses on the ability of the supported hardware to create virtual pools of resources (CPU cores, RAM, etc.) dedicated to separate operating systems. inside a virtual machine.

Looking closely at the screenshots shared by @NTDEV_, we can see that Windows 11 running on iPhone 15 Pro has some limitations. For example, severely limited emulation performance or configuration options, resolution and aspect ratio are all significantly reduced compared to the iPhone's full screen. All screenshots show only simple, limited window use cases.

As noted by @NTDEV_, Windows 11 on iPhone takes up to 20 minutes to boot into the operating system, iPhone also does not have the ability to optimize x86 software or hardware like Macs.

Although the performance of Windows 11 on iPhone cannot be called "usable", this is still a remarkable achievement for both UTM SE and the Tiny11 development team.

Micah Soto

Update 23 July 2024