This iPhone Runs Prototype Software

To celebrate 15 years of the original iPhone, I pulled out my not-so-average 2G. Thanks to some technical wizardry that I performed 5 years ago, its currently running some prototype Apple software that was used during the iPhone's development. Let's check it out!
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[@rx500android]

5 years later, and we all care about this prototype

[@Redstonedust-rc9nr]

Lol

[@AverageMichaelJordans]

Lol

[@Redstonedust-rc9nr]

I think I phone sucks but that operating system made my interest in I phones better

[@wtwn]

Oh yeah, the iPhone is the best if not in the top 3 best phones in the world...yeah. It sUcKs gEt a wInDows Lumia pHoNE

[@lord_khufu]

@@Redstonedust-rc9nr this is cool because first time i've ever heard of it, the actual operating system though is just sad, pretty much what i've seen is kids desperately trying to sideload games and apps via apple ids which are locked more often than not or chinese certificates that revoke after 2 day and takes weeks for a new one to leak out, i used to be one and it made me absolutely despise this os. I have a pc now and the freedom is just wonderful, never will i touch apple products again because you know it's "traumatizing"

[@TorutheRedFox]

'Say hello to the Newton MessagePad 3000' cracks me up every time

[@jargon343]

I like how the low battery notification says “please attach me to power. Thanks.” lol Also your only 3k subs away from 300k! Early congrats!

[@MichaelMJD]

Thank you!

[@NaraSherko]

Second

[@BlueVoxeel]

Where

[@woodentrainseriesofficial9511]

@@BlueVoxeelwhere what

[@victorxoi1057]

This bombarded my head with answers to the question of what the first iPhone might look like !And what a prototype of the first ios looked like! Touchscreen from 2006 runs very good

[@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R]

I can't remember the name, but Apple bought out a company that created gesture-based touch interfaces so that they could adapt it for the iPhone.

[@victorxoi1057]

@@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R Good to know

[@BilisNegra]

This test OS is NOT a prototype of iOS. At all.

[@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R]

@@BilisNegra Wasn't it designed so that lower-level engineers couldn't leak the final design?

[@gulaurfo6104]

Well it had a capactive touchscreen that is still standard today not the shitty resistive that was trending back then

[@DavidWonn]

"CLNet" is likely C|Net (with the vertical bar as a separator, popular at the time.)

[@OpenKeith]

8:41 i think it's just displaying the images really zoomed in for some reason - it was cycling before two photos before you took the photo of your hand, and afterwards there was an extra fleshier-looking image.

[@BoBoN4Uto]

Apple employees: how many times should we ping Google? Apple: OVER NINE THOUSAND!

[@irvin295]

They probably were testing connectivity and chip performance! Lol

[@SOTP.]

theyre ddosing google LOL

[@_defined]

@@SOTP. DOSing. DDOSing is when there are many devices raiding.

[@lemonsmc_48]

@@_defined lmfao your so funny

[@HouseOfFunQM]

Even though it's REALLY OBVIOUS, I wonder if the "Welcome the the Newton MessagePad 3000" isn't actually a joke, but is in case somebody found the device. Then it would throw people off "this is the leaked iPhone" and instead it could be just a really small new Newton revival. I dunno I'm drunk.

[@JohnVinkWantsAnswers]

I added this myself when I worked on SkankPhone.

[@bubz5884]

@@JohnVinkWantsAnswers wait, really? That’s crazy 😮

[@thundurr]

@@JohnVinkWantsAnswers Wow the actual ex senior software engineer at Apple and Google lol

[@Luna_moona457]

@@JohnVinkWantsAnswersyou sure are a hidden gem! Lol

[@whatbroicanhave50character35]

Fat proprietary charger, massive black bars, thick silver bezel. Jeez I forget how far we've come in terms of aesthetics. I'm aware of how much more powerful the phones are and how many UI improvements we've had but wow, I'm just blown away by the drastic change in basic appearance over the years.

[@idogaming3532]

At least it still has the headphone jack.

[@whatbroicanhave50character35]

@@idogaming3532 Just bought an s22 ultra less than a month ago. Painfully aware of this fact.

[@idogaming3532]

Also if you unlock the bootloader on the latest fold phone thingy you can't use the camera. They say it's for security. That's like saying "If you use non iDoGaming oil your car won't start, dont worry it's for safety"

[@whatbroicanhave50character35]

@Clint O'Connell a lot of late 2000s androids also didn't cost nearly as much as the iPhone did. Most that cost the same as the iPhone or more I remember having metal and glass construction. Edit: I'm wrong and have no issue admitting it. I was thinking a little farther on. Wow I forgot how bad android phones looked/were in 2009.

[@idogaming3532]

@@whatbroicanhave50character35 At least the Galaxy S3 was functional. Nowadays we have bloated phones in software, non removable batteries, and we make phones disable their fucking cameras if you unlock the bootloader (latest Galaxy fold phones) All in the name anticonsumerism, capitalism, being cheap, and making things look nice.

[@thedelayingskipper]

Love your content Michael!

[@NoahClevinger]

Congrats on reaching almost 300,000 subscribers, Michael! You’re easily one of my favorite KZbinrs. You deserve it!

[@MichaelMJD]

Thank you!

[@EnyaGamez]

Congrats on reaching almost 400,000 subscribers, Michael! You're easily one of my favoritr KZbinrs. You Deserve it!

[@shenxi]

Congrats on reaching 400,000 subscribers, Michael! You're easily one of my favorite KZbinrs. You Deserve it!

[@rachel_sj]

As some who’s a User Experience Designer (and User Researcher), this experience of using the iOS testing software on an iPhone 2 is pretty awesome to see. It’s fascinating to play around a more rudimentary, under construction UI used to test out interaction concepts on the phone but then have to provide the space for programmers inputting commands with a desktop/keyboard, which is interesting to see on the screen. I think that’s one of the better solutions that Apple software and hardware teams had to have come up with if they were separated (which seems kinda ludicrous honestly).

[@flp322]

Apple is infamous for being secretive like that.

[@rachel_sj]

@@flp322 Yeah, some things never change and I think that whole division of teams is leftover from past development project plans and they really didn't know too much about how to integrate both experiences into one like we do now. Just another interesting indicator proving that 2007-2008 feels even more like the past than ever! 🤣

[@bit4795]

It’s the first iPhone btw 2G not 2

[@irvin295]

Think about it though, if anything got leaked they would have a perfect paper trail to follow. To the outside world it would just look like new software update for Mac, or just a new gadget to be used within the facilities, but inside they’d be able to narrow it down and hold whoever accountable.

[@tailsprower9542]

yay a new MJD video and one that looks really interesting :D thanks for the new video their always awsome, can wait to see whats next. keep up the good videos!

[@xxace_tntxx4289]

It’s amazing a measly 5 years can do lol. KZbin has changed its algorithm so much since then and your channel is popping out good stuff !

[@Divyanshu.Saraswat]

A 20 Minutes MJD Video is a pure *BLISS*

[@Jdmyonal5.0]

True

[@Haiden4334]

Yes bliss like the xp wallpaper

[@thepcuser5469]

@@Haiden4334 Yaay our good ol’ xp

[@BloHead]

True

[@Divyanshu.Saraswat]

@@Haiden4334 Exactly

[@hexagonist23]

Thank you! There is no other video showing the prototype firmware in detail. These prototype iPhones are very rare to come across, and I'm very happy that you made this video

[@soybean_56]

Hey Michael! Just wanna say I love the content, very relaxing to watch!

[@MichaelMJD]

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoy it

[@andyibanezk]

“Cereal number”. Glad to see those engineers were having fun while building this.

[@whoshotdk]

In theory you should be able to disable Multi-Touch without completely disabling touch. Not sure I would try it anyway though.

[@yxles]

yeah cuz as the name suggest, it will just disable the Multi-Touch feature of the touchscreen essentially making it a single-touch as per my understanding

[@fluori5890]

@@yxles 10000000 iq

[@theKongston]

I tried it. It turned off ALL TOUCH my switchboard and I had to restart

[@MichaelMJD]

It’s referring to the multi-touch surface, so it would disable touch entirely.

[@tylern6420]

@@MichaelMJD what does the other stuff do

[@neox2074]

Informative and entertaining, as always!

[@idcrafter-cgi]

AT commands are commands to it's modem, it's a industry standard syntax it uses

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

Bringing answers to questions we didn't know we needed to know!

[@winxstellachannel4843]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND YOUR CHANNEL MICHEL MJD !

[@JustPyroYT]

Great Video, Michael! 👍

[@Susie6iscool]

Hi michael, theese videos are so awesome and intresting, keep them up!

[@that_Harrison]

Really good overview of this development software! Any chance you’d be able to make a tutorial on how to install it?

[@RealTheCrasher8]

Yay! A new MichaelMJD video!

[@123warsie]

Love your videos

[@blainepalmerza]

Awesome video, Michael!

[@silassterlingreuploadsmusic]

This prototype looks like something my software class would tell me to make in MIT app inventor

[@yashy2x]

Love your content ❤️

[@attitudecontrol]

This really proves that the software is everything. It is magical in the ways it can be shaped and adapt for user input. Very cool early look!

[@JohnVinkWantsAnswers]

That's my software! I worked on SkankPhone when I was at Apple. The version you have doesn't seem to be functioning properly.

[@Sentient-potato]

Ok but when

[@Sentient-potato]

Did I ask

[@JohnVinkWantsAnswers]

@@Sentient-potato I worked on this starting in December 2006.

[@JohnVinkWantsAnswers]

The Operator screen is actually way more interesting. You should be able to tap on any of those icons and see all the tests. This would be used by "operators" in the factory on every single iPhone made to make sure all the sensors and other things were working. For example, if you tapped the Speaker icon, you would hear one of 4 different INXS songs, and you had to tap a button to indicate that you heard it.

[@Wetballs]

My question will be little off topic but considering you're roll in Apple we're you ever yelled at by Steve Jobs? Are you still with Apple? If not why?

[@jamesmiIIer]

Nice to see someone covering SkankPhone! Haven't seen many people online actually cover it in the modern day, so this was refreshing to see. Cool stuff!

[@CosmoBurst]

Pretty awesome to see!

[@LeadusTheUnfortunate]

"Known by... *sigh* ✨️SkankPhone✨️" That has got to be the funniest thing I heard

[@gmoneythestickman]

smasnug?

[@LeadusTheUnfortunate]

@@gmoneythestickman You have a point Also, did you come from F4mi?

[@KevVideos06]

It's a good day when MJD uploads

[@1blisslife]

For the WiFi you probably have to hook up an older router with older password security like WPA or other compatible security settings that your old or a current router may allow & the phone itself supports since there's several. So you can connect WiFi.

[@SOTP.]

Usually you have a setting to set older security settings which could help in that case

[@xanderplayz3446]

WPA2 was released in 2004, the same year that the iPhone started development, so it would make sense, but in the WiFi menu, it has WPA2 on there, so most likely WPA2 was implemented in a later version, but was being implemented in the version that was leaked.

[@goobertwubsu]

This was a great video.

[@TYX8926]

Sounds like an interesting development! I like these videos, they make me learn quite a lot about the background of these things. Do you plan to still make development history videos some time around? It's been a while since I've seen those and I like them a lot!

[@MichaelMJD]

I would like to cover each Windows version’s development eventually!

[@yorkshireball_animations]

@@MichaelMJD Would you consider doing one on OS/2 Warp?

[@MichaelMJD]

@@yorkshireball_animations That's a possibility!

[@robloxanticheat]

when mjd uploaded i felt happy :)

[@Parakeet709]

That actually looks really good.

[@Muibo2]

Congrats Michael almost reaching 300k subs

[@PepekeCZE]

its cool to see apple prototypes

[@smolbutters]

I just started the video, but the battery running low and the cut to the iphone with the charger was hilarious

[@w4clips]

this man is underrated as heck

[@cheezypocket4063]

Really cool!

[@RETROMachines]

Nicely processed video. You can see how Apple has progressed since the iPhone 2...

[@hblaub]

6:06 "Say hello to the Newton MessagePad 3000"

[@rswierczynski]

Really interesting !

[@Autoplayy]

19:26 "welcome to my crib guys, wanna take a look at that nice developer information dashboard i have found and flashed myself on an iPhone 2G, while i will get yall something to drink."

[@VELI-Productions]

Always wanted to see more about this ever since I heard about how Steve Jobs had pitted Scott Forstall against Tony Fadell for them to both be in charge of developing separate operating systems for the iPhone to see which one was better.

[@bluepanic9731]

0:52 LOL idk why i laugh so much at this

[@pum6454]

SkankPhone has to be the most hilarious name for a prototype placeholder name I've ever heard

[@JavCaRRTech]

How I love this videos

[@cry99archive]

and now apple is releasing an accessibility mode called “assistive access” in iOS17 where it looks similar to this prototype version. it’s just a bunch of big buttons on ur screen

[@pgxolguyNet]

Have a first reply bud

[@RCS2Jacob]

i got to experience it

[@igeekone]

6:39 Digg really brings back memories of Diggnation!

[@LavaIceLilac]

Wow the prototype is super advanced, we still don't have a number row on the iOS keyboard

[@sali-ali]

Can't you enable it from the settings or can't you install another keyboard?

[@servantbyday]

@@sali-ali Third party keyboards can have it integrated into the keyboard

[@LavaIceLilac]

@@servantbyday Wait what which keyboards? Even Google Keyboard doesn't have an actual number row that doesn't require holding keys down

[@servantbyday]

@@LavaIceLilac Microsoft’s SwiftKey keyboard allows for the number row. Cheers

[@undefinedCat]

​@@LavaIceLilac you can enable it in the settings

[@Jdmyonal5.0]

I love this video

[@Ricar2002YT]

This is very cool

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

8:16 bro you took those pictures 😂

[@TH-kb5qw]

now i am in a good mood

[@clashblaster]

It looks like those were your photos, just zoomed in. When you took the third picture it started cycling through three different pictures instead of two.

[@coffeecat086]

If I had seen this five years ago, I would’ve been excited, lol.

[@calvinwescott9495]

hi MJD could you please make a tutorial on how to get the regular iphone 2g to run the prototype system? I really want to have a try :)

[@Parakeet709]

Wow! I did not know camera was located in phone!

[@machport]

I remember your old video about that, why'd you delete it? (or did you even delete it). I couldn't find the video the last times I tried looking for it.

[@ramenish]

17:54 HAHAHAHAHAHHAH serial number y'know, cereal number

[@exxon47_]

24K and 10 hours wow you are really popular that is absolutely insane

[@nimadejbord]

Damn, that iphone is thick

[@CubeAtlantic]

idek, why but this version in this case always had a very unique, & distinctive design/phone interior.

[@sundhaug92]

For WiFi, try boosting the TX-strength

[@LunaWuna]

I was intrigued by the prototype stuff when dankpods made a video but he didn't really cover it well. Thanks for showing more!

[@DiePandareporter]

The knowledge that the iPhone is now 15 years old hitted definitely.

[@kittyboochanyesbongono8467]

That looks like a funky GUI ngl

[@spilt-milkie]

one thing missing from this video how did you do this

[@forestsmills]

Any updates on that Compaq portable from almost a year ago?

[@TweeterMan287]

Tim Cook would like to have a word with you

[@sundhaug92]

AT commands - so you can directly interact with the onboard modem (no joke)

[@MrPillowStudios]

That's crazy, not even kidding.

[@Shmeagle01]

Hey micheal i know this is offtopic but when are you gonna post part 2 to the compaq portable pc?

[@soremuss]

This thing will never catch on, it has no phtsical keyboard for all the e-mailing...

[@EquaTechnologies]

16:08 apple be ddosing google 🔥😤

[@oldtech8520]

Where did you get it

[@HelenFire420]

It’s funny to think about what phones looked like before iPhones. I remember a friend of mine got the iPhone the month it came out in 2007 and remember thinking it was really cool. I also remember a lot of people telling her “this is just a fad” and “how can you use a phone without a keyboard?” Google was smart enough to change course on android, others like Microsoft, not so much.

[@chlkrisz]

please Michael make this video a little bit clickbait-y, it's genuinely good

[@Easycheese61]

1:52 its the same time in tucson az so its correct where i am

[@panqueque445]

"Ping Google 10k times" lmao

[@J4y_boi]

old boi phone go prototype mode

[@PrintNPlay]

That interface feels like early TNG LCARS to me

[@Granny_Gaming]

reminds me of the dankpod video talking about prototype ipods

[@coleisforrobot]

Dump it. _Dump it._

[@hossammoah]

It's already been dumped... Thats how he was able to run it on a non-prototype iPhone.

[@gdplayer1035]

You know you want to.

[@DonkeKongy]

first time making it early to one of these videos

[@oldtech8520]

Also there is a iPhone 2G with iPod software yes you heard me right iPod software

[@joachim2464]

How did you get this software?

[@JamesnLollify]

Watching Computer Clan and now Michael MJD become AppleInternal channels:

[@TehVistaSpartan]

in an alternate universe: "This might look like an ordinary iPhone 2G, and that's because it is. This is a regular iPhone 2G. There's literally nothing special about it at all." *video ends*

[@Finlay17x2]

I still can't get over the name "SkankPhone". xD

[@chrism869]

ironicly funny in a way, ive been working on trying to get an original iphone as soon as i get one

[@multiverseone8115]

I'll always remember DankPod's reaction to "SkankPhone"