You can run Windows 11 on your iPhone, but it sounds awful

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We recently covered how Apple had finally opened the floodgates to emulators by approving UTM SE for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro, and now we're seeing some impressive, slightly bewildering, next steps from the emulation community.

As shared on X (formerly Twitter), NTDEV revealed that Windows 11 can now run on an iPhone 15 Pro.

"Behold, probably the very first instance of Windows 11 (in form of tiny11 core) on UTM SE," the post reads.

"It is TERRIBLY slow, booting in about 20 minutes, but nonetheless, it's still Windows 11 on an iPhone 15 Pro!"

We'll skip for now, thanks

In this instance, NTDEV's "trying stuff so you don't have to" motto might be more correct than ever.

Aside from the slow performance and lengthy boot times, the smaller screen makes Windows 11 look like one of those horrendous pocket PCs that predated smartphones that I saw my Dad wrestle with for work before they were wiped out.

The account says a video of the build running is something it'd consider uploading, but for now, it's impressive to see such big steps made with emulation on iPhone just over a week after UTM SE made its debut on the platform - maybe macOS on the iPad could be possible one day after all.

If you could emulate any platform on your iPhone or iPad, what would it be?

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Lloyd Coombes is a freelance writer with a specialism in Apple tech. From his first, hand-me-down iMac, he’s been working with Apple products for over a decade, and while he loves his iPhone and Mac, the iPad will always have his heart for reasons he still can’t quite fathom. Since moving from blogging to writing professionally, Lloyd’s work can be found at TechRadar, Macworld, TechAdvisor and plenty more. He’s also the Editor in Chief at GGRecon.com, and on the rare occasion he’s not writing you’ll find him spending time with his son, or working hard at the gym (while wearing an Apple Watch, naturally). You can find him on Twitter @lloydcoombes.

2 Comments Comment from the forums
  • simonmann
    I don't know why you have so much hate for Windows 11. I'm on a Mac M3 and it's slower than Windows 11 on my 13th Gen Intel. Also, Windows has to support a lot of backward compatibility, more than Mac does or Mac ever will do. So just calm down a little bit, getting childish and unprofessional.
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  • Just_Me_D
    simonmann said:
    I don't know why you have so much hate for Windows 11. I'm on a Mac M3 and it's slower than Windows 11 on my 13th Gen Intel. Also, Windows has to support a lot of backward compatibility, more than Mac does or Mac ever will do. So just calm down a little bit, getting childish and unprofessional.
    Did I miss something? I just finished reading the article and I didn’t think the author was hating on ‘Windows 11’, however, he was not impressed with the Windows 11 emulator running on an iPhone 15 series smartphone.
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