Security News > 2020 > March > Run ANDROID on an iPhone? Are you SERIOUS?!?

The really bad news is the CPU row, which has only three green squares, and tells you that the Sandcastle builds will only work on iPhone 7 devices for now.

If you happen to have a surplus-to-requirements iPhone 7 lying around, and you decide to give this Android thing a spin please let us know in the comments how you got along.

Freeing up Apple iDevices to run alternative firmware builds has always divided the IT industry's opinion - even if all you want to do is run an official iOS version configured in a non-standard way, for example with an SSH server running so you can log in on the command line from your laptop.

We're particularly sympathetic to the idea of "Combatting e-waste", not least because the only way to keep using an iPhone after Apple stops supporting it if you don't use a jailbreak is to run it indefinitely without any security updates.

If you do want to try it at home you can indeed have Android on your iPhone, provided you don't want to make any phone calls, as long as you have an iPhone with a model number greater than 6 and smaller than 8.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/06/run-android-on-an-iphone-are-you-serious/