Build and run an iOS app on an iPhone without a Mac

From an iPhone, the poster had a Cursor cloud agent build their iOS app, install it, and drive it using ios-builder, with no Mac.

What They Did

The poster says that from their iPhone, they asked a Cursor cloud agent to build an iOS app using ios-builder, then told it to install that fresh build onto the same iPhone, launch it, and drive the app on the physical device. They describe the whole loop happening without a Mac, cable, or simulator; the comments add only that it was not just an SSH tunnel setup.

How It Went

The reported result was a working end-to-end flow: the app built, installed, launched, and the agent interacted with it on the poster’s iPhone. The poster says it still needs polishing and gives no performance numbers or failure rate.

Worth Knowing

The main catch is that this was presented as an early working workflow, not a polished one; the post gives no step-by-step setup details beyond using Cursor cloud agent and ios-builder.