open-iphone-use
Give AI agents a real iPhone through macOS Bluetooth HID, local screen sharing, and MCP.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 78%)
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- Agent / copilot
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- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial The MCP server and screen-sharing glue are standard, but making macOS present a working Bluetooth HID device that an iPhone pairs with and accepts input from is low-level and fragile.
What it would actually take: The stack is macOS IOBluetooth/HID device emulation plus local screen mirroring and an MCP server that exposes tap, swipe, and screenshot tools. The difficult part is getting the iPhone to trust and pair the emulated HID device, which involves Bluetooth stack internals and possibly private APIs that change across macOS versions. It needs someone comfortable with Bluetooth protocols and macOS system internals, plus iterative testing on real devices.
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Launched 358 days after the earliest competitor.
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