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A $7 ESP32 lets an AI agent use your real iPhone (open source)

Henry Yuan Published Oct 2026 Shows: esp32-iphone-agent

About this video

An ESP32 board plugged into an iPhone lets an AI model use the phone, the description says, with AirPlay mirroring the screen and any OpenAI-compatible vision model choosing actions.

Good to know: An AI model is given control of a real iPhone through a board that acts as its hand, sees the mirrored screen and carries out a run of taps to finish a task.

Why watch it

The board is connected, the screen mirrored and the pointer calibrated before the agent is asked to set a 7 AM alarm, by the description, with some parts sped up.

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