Henrik Klee has Omarchy running natively on an iPad 6, touchscreen and Wi-Fi included
A one-minute video of Omarchy on an Apple tablet drew a “Wow!” from DHH, and the repo with drivers and a touch-adapted shell is coming soon.
Image: Henrik Klee (X)
Omarchy just landed on a device nobody expected: an iPad. On October 21, 2026, developer Henrik Klee posted a one-minute video on X with a short caption: “Omarchy running natively on iPad 6.” Not in a VM, not through a remote desktop, but on the tablet itself, according to Henrik.
And it is far more than a boot screen. Henrik listed what already works on the iPad 6:
- the touchscreen
- Wi-Fi
- the hardware buttons
- screen brightness
- charging, capped at 425 mA for now
- battery status
Still on his to-do list, per the same post: suspend and resume, Bluetooth pairing and audio, and charging at higher currents. In other words, the basics of a usable tablet are there, and the remaining items are the ones that turn it into something you can carry around all day.
DHH saw it. A little over two hours after the original post, he quote-posted the video with a single word: “Wow!”
If you have an old iPad 6 in a drawer, hold on a bit longer. In a follow-up post on October 22, Henrik said a “repo with install instructions, tooling, drivers and touch adapted shell (wip)” is “coming soon.” There is no public link yet, so there is nothing to install today.
Henrik’s work is already rubbing off on others. Tom Ballard reported on October 22 that, “after evenings of DFU retries,” his iPad mini 4 is running native ARM64 Linux, with both A8 cores online and a live root shell, and he thanked Henrik “for sharing guidance from his iPad 6 work.” That one is plain Linux, not Omarchy yet, but Tom made his next goal clear: “Next stop: Omarchy.”
Henrik, whose X bio points to glu.run, a Homebrew client he describes as twice as fast, is keeping the technical write-up for that repo. We will be watching for it.
