Show HN: SideTap – an LLM drives a real iPhone from Windows, no Mac or jailbreak

Category: devtools

Tags: iphone-automation, llm-agent, webdriveragent, windows, mcp

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

SideTap enables LLM agents to control a real iPhone from Windows via USB without a Mac, Xcode, or jailbreak, using WebDriverAgent and go-ios. It exposes the actual UI element tree for precise interaction, offers a live viewer, one-call flows, MCP tools, and safety features like a kill switch and prompt injection gate.

Target audience: AI/ML engineers, automation developers, QA engineers

Repository: https://github.com/ucsandman/SideTap · Python · MIT · 52 stars

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