This is a very last minute guide so if you have problems message me on discord @klutzyt
But also note that I am not a dev, I basically used other peoples premade tools and knowledge to do this.
this also can work on 26.2 DEV BETA 1 but i left it out of everything to reduce confusion
This guide is dedicated to post I made on twitter a little while back Here
I nor any developer of the tools required, are responsible for bricked devices, lost data, or any other issues that can happen. Please be responsible and back up your data in any way, Whether thats a iCloud backup or a local iTunes/Finder backup.
This is obvious by the photos on twitter, but a bunch of ui elements are broken/really hard to use, here are some bugs with this that i havent been able to solve
- Control Center is all white and icons blend into the background
- Dock, App Library etc. are either a solid white (light mode) or solid black (dark mode)
- Sliders meant for iOS 26 become buggy and hard to use
- Camera app remains the new ui
- Certain elements of iOS 26 revert to a merge of iOS 18 and 26 (ex lockscreen clock size animations etc)
If any of these issues are a problem to you, please do not do this, there is a way to revert changes but due to the experimental sense of this, it wont be provided by me.
- Tested only on intel macOS for now, so unknown if this works on Windows or Linux or Arm64 macOS
- Basic command line knowledge
- Nugget v6 or later v7 not recommended for now
- This .batter file
- This Global.plist
- Pengubow's fork of bl_sbx (You can just download the code as zip)
- Python I recommend 3.13 for now
- Ensure you have the requirements downloaded
- cd into the unzipped folder for bl_sbx
cd bl_sbx - Install required dependencies for bl_sbx (python required) (Leave the terminal open, we'll need it later)
pip3 install click requests packaging pymobiledevice3 - Start Nugget (Not recommented to use v7 for now)
- Restore the downloaded .batter file (find my has to be off, you can turn it back on after your done)(Go to templates > Import .batter > Select the one you downloaded > Go to Apply and click Apply)(Wait until your device finishes restarting to move to the next step)
- Open the terminal for bl_sbx back up and have a finder window to drag the global.plist into the terminal
- Enter
sudo python3 run.py /Drag/the/global.plist/here /private/var/preferences/FeatureFlags/Global.plist - It will open the books app for you and ask you to download a book, just do a free one, it just needs to do that to get a uuid for the app, you can delete it later
- It will respring the phone when its done, you will need to manually reboot your phone for the changes to apply
- Hopefully done, you should now have the closest thing to the iOS 18 UI
Step 8 will likely take multiple tries, if it gets stuck, press CTRL and C a few times to stop the command, then re-run the command
You may also need to un-plug and re-plug your phone to get it to work, worst case scenario, reboot your computer and your device
- Lemin for nugget and helping me do this
- pengubow for making the fork of bl_sbx I used and helping me get basically everything to do this :P
- khanhduytran0 for bookrestore
- Apple?