esp32-iphone-agent: drive a real iPhone with a $7 ESP32
Lets any OpenAI-compatible vision model use a real iPhone: AirPlay for eyes, USB HID for hands, via a $7 ESP32. No Mac, no developer account, no jailbreak.
Why it matters
It collapses the hardware barrier to phone automation: instead of a device farm or a Mac with Xcode, a $7 microcontroller turns a stock iPhone into something an AI agent can see and operate.
What you could build with it
An indie developer could build a mobile-app QA service that runs smoke tests on a rack of real iPhones driven by a vision model through cheap ESP32 dongles, offering automated UI testing without device-farm subscriptions.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge - launched Oct 11; the no-jailbreak, $7-hardware claim needs real user reports of successful iPhone-driving sessions.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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