> Supporting iPadOS 16.4 or later presents additional challenges because Hypervisor support was removed from the iPadOS XNU kernel

Why would they do that? It seems to have prevented UTM (there's a linked tweet[0].)

They used to have a policy of no emulators, I think. But if they shipped a hypervisor why remove it?

Every time I see what people achieve when jailbreaking, it makes me think that nothing would be healthier than forcing iOS to be unlocked and even fully open source.

[0] https://xcancel.com/UTMapp/status/1708907045314035986

ipad os 26 has some opportunity, some research(google "ios26-hypervisor-research") indicates that apple add hypervisor back at ios/ipados 26, since latest security features relies on it