Posted On: October 13th 2026, 04:30 pm
Last week, someone got GTA 5 running in a web browser, and Rockstar’s lawyers shut it down within hours. It didn’t stay dead for long.
A developer known as C22 took that browser version and rebuilt it into a native iPhone app in just a few days. On an iPhone 17 it runs at 50 to 60 FPS and uses about 1.1GB of RAM. It isn’t streamed from a PC or console, and it doesn’t need an emulator or a jailbroken phone. The developer says AI helped with parts of the recompilation, while much of the code was still written by hand.
Since then, other developers have gotten it running on iPads at 60 FPS too.
It’s unofficial and not from Rockstar, but it shows how powerful phones have become, and how hard it is to stop leaked code once it’s out.
Would you play GTA 5 on your phone? 👇
🎥: c22_dev on X
#gta5 #gta6 #iphone #gaming #ai