# Bringing macOS to Devin | Devin

The cloud workspaces run on AWS EC2 Mac instances with persistent snapshots, custom networking, and Xcode integration for iOS, iPad, and macOS projects.

- Devin inspects and controls running apps using accessibility tree structures alongside screenshots instead of relying solely on visual pixel parsing.
- Disk persistence uses Network Block Device attachments to maintain VM state across asynchronous sessions.
- A custom user-space Ethernet gateway replaces managed NAT to enforce firewall and access control policies.
- A live iOS Simulator pane and VNC stream let users monitor execution and manually take control of the VM.

## Why it matters

Apple platform developers can now use Devin to autonomously compile, run, interact with, and verify native macOS and iOS applications in the cloud.

## Sources

- [Devin: Bringing macOS to Devin | Devin](https://devin.ai/blog/devin-gets-a-mac)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-09-14. https://dstilled.ai/story/5e9cb193-b53f-46b6-8115-99c07b3eae19