14 DAY TRIAL // In theory, getting an iOS interface on Android is easy business, as it all comes down to a dedicated theme that can be installed with one of the many launchers already available for download.
But if you want the look of Android on iPhones, that’s much harder than it sounds, and it all comes down to Apple’s walled garden that doesn’t allow such sorcery on its platform.
And yet, Samsung has found a clever way to provide iPhone owners with a taste of Android, and this time, it’s using a web app called iTest for the whole thing.
In just a few words, what iTest is supposed to do is to provide iPhone owners with a full-screen interface that mimics Android and whose purpose is to simulate the experience you would normally get on a Samsung device.
So after installing the web app and introducing your iPhone to the Android world, you’d get a bunch of virtual calls to introduce the operating system, as well as messages, notifications, and everything else. In other words, Samsung has really tried to make this feel as genuine as possible.
iPhone 7 and later
You also get access to the typical Samsung apps, such as the gallery, the Galaxy Store, and even choose new themes and enable them on your “Android” device.
As MacRumors notes, the website is being advertised in New Zealand, but of course, everybody can give it a try right now.
Worth knowing is that it requires at least an iPhone 7 to be able to load, though in some cases, the web app sometimes appears to freeze – of course, critics say this is actually intended, as Samsung wanted to offer the full native Android experience.
You can try it out yourselves by clicking the link above and then scanning the QR code with your iPhone.