A real, hosted iPhone on its own mobile SIM, reserved for you and used from your browser: how it works, what it suits, and when something else fits better.
Renting a remote iPhone means a real, physical iPhone stays in our rack, powered and online on its own mobile SIM, and you use it from your browser: live screen, touch and keyboard, as if it were in your hand. Nothing is shipped to you and nothing is installed. MKY Remote rents dedicated remote iPhones this way from $65 per iPhone for 30 days.
A hosted iPhone you work on from anywhere, not a video of one.
The phone's screen streams to your browser on desktop, or on your own phone. Tap and swipe on it directly. There is no app to download.
Type with your own keyboard instead of tapping letters, and push text or captions to the iPhone's clipboard to paste into any app.
Upload photos and videos from your computer and the iPhone downloads them into its gallery, ready to use. No cables and no AirDrop.
Watch every phone you rent side by side in multiview, and jump into any one of them for full control.
A dedicated iPhone keeps its apps, logins and settings between sessions, because nobody else uses it.
Heavy App Mode tunes the stream and gestures for demanding apps like TikTok and X, so they stay responsive over a remote connection.
Four things people mean by renting an iPhone online.
| Remote iPhone rental | Shipped iPhone rental | iOS Simulator | Device-testing cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A dedicated physical iPhone, hosted for you | A physical iPhone delivered to you | A simulated iPhone in Apple's Xcode, on a Mac | Many real device models, by the session |
| Connection | Its own mobile SIM (at MKY Remote) | Whatever SIM or Wi-Fi comes with it | Your Mac's connection | The provider's network |
| App Store apps | Yes, it is a real iPhone | Yes | No | Built for testing your own app |
| Keeps your logins | Yes, it is yours for the rental | Yes, while you have it | Not applicable | Usually wiped after each session |
| Who maintains it | The provider | You, while you hold it | You | The provider |
| Best for | Running real apps and accounts every day, alone or as a team | Filming, events and hands-on use | Developers building an app | QA teams testing an app across many models |
Mostly content teams and agencies that run Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads and Facebook accounts. They need real iPhones on real mobile connections, every day, without keeping a drawer of phones charged and updated. Teams spread across countries use the same phones from wherever they are, each person with their own login.
For those uses there is more on renting an iPhone for Instagram, renting a real phone for TikTok, and how phone farm rentals compare. To compare providers, see remote iPhone rental services compared.
A dedicated iPhone: iPhone SE 2020, XR, 11, 12 mini or 13 on current iOS, the same device every session and never shared. iPhone 8 and X are kept on iOS 16 for jailbreak and container setups.
Its own mobile SIM: real carrier data, with no VPN, proxy or datacenter IP in the path.
Scheduling: a built-in scheduler posts to Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads and Facebook, and one upload can go to several phones at staggered times.
Team access: sub-accounts with access to specific phones only, which you can revoke at any time.
Monitoring and support: phones are watched continuously and recover automatically in most cases, and support is a direct conversation on Telegram.
From $65 per iPhone for 30 days. The exact price depends on how many phones you take and what you want set up.
Create a free account, then message @MakyrRec on Telegram with how many iPhones you need. Once we assign them, they appear in your account, live and ready to control. See pricing.
If you are testing your own app across dozens of models and iOS versions, with automated tests, a device-testing cloud is built for that job and we are not.
If you need the phone in your hand, for filming or events, rent one that is shipped to you. And if you need one phone indefinitely and are happy to look after it, buying one costs less over a year.
Whatever you run on a rented iPhone, each platform's rules still apply, and our terms make following them the customer's responsibility.
A real, physical iPhone that is hosted somewhere else and used over the internet. You see its screen live in your browser and control it with touch and keyboard, as if it were in your hand.
Create a free MKY Remote account, then message @MakyrRec on Telegram with how many iPhones you need and for how long. Once we assign them, they appear in your account, ready to use from your browser.
A real iPhone. We run iPhone SE 2020, XR, 11, 12 mini and 13 on current iOS, each on its own mobile SIM. Nothing is simulated or emulated.
No. The iPhone runs in any modern browser, on desktop or mobile, with nothing to download.
Yes. The live view works in a mobile browser as well as on desktop, with the same controls.
No. Each iPhone is dedicated to one customer for the whole rental, so your apps and logins stay as you left them.
From $65 per iPhone for 30 days. The exact price depends on how many phones you take and what you need set up.