iGhostVT

iGhostVT 1.6.16 fixes modified Enter keys, so Shift+Enter inserts a newline in Claude Code on the Mac.

• On the Mac, Shift+Enter submitted a Claude Code prompt instead of inserting a newline, and Option+Enter and Control+Enter also reached terminal programs as a plain Enter. The terminal library now preserves these modifiers and lets the program's keyboard protocol encode them. Plain Enter still submits, and an input method keeps Return while composing text.

Choose iphoneos-arm64e for roothide, iphoneos-arm64 for a rootless bootstrap, iGhostVT-1.6.16-macos-notarized.zip for a Mac — it is signed and notarized, so it opens without clearing quarantine, and updates itself — or GhostRemote-1.6.16.ipa for an iPhone or iPad without custom firmware, which your sideloading app signs as it installs it. To run the relay, use the attached compose.yml; the image is ghcr.io/owngoal-dev/ighostvt-relay, and the digest is in relay-image.txt. SHA-256 sums are in SHA256SUMS, and the Mac app's in SHA256SUMS.macos.

Updated to 1.6.5 (from apt.owngoal.dev).

iGhostVT 1.6.0 brings remote terminals back faster and speeds up what a host sends over a slow connection, and starts a new release line: it connects only to devices on 1.6.

• Coming back to a terminal on another device — opening the app, returning to it, or the network coming back — waited for the host to accept the connection before asking for the terminal, and then for up to 256 KB of its recent output. The device now asks for the terminal together with the connection, and the host compresses what it sends, so the screen fills in about half the time: on a Wi‑Fi link with 30 ms round trips a reconnect took 222–265 ms and now takes 124–145 ms, on a cellular link about one second and now about half a second, and on a very poor link six seconds and now two.
• Text-heavy output from a host — a long log, a build, an sz download of a text file — took a slow link's full bandwidth. It is now compressed on the way, and an 8 MB text file comes down 1.7 to 2.3 times as fast; files that are already compressed transfer as before. What you type is sent as it was.
• Devices on different releases cannot connect to each other. Update every device to 1.6.0 together: iGhostVT on your Macs and jailbroken devices, and Ghost Remote on your other iPhones and iPads.

Choose iphoneos-arm64e for roothide, iphoneos-arm64 for a rootless bootstrap, iGhostVT-1.6.0-macos-notarized.zip for a Mac — it is signed and notarized, so it opens without clearing quarantine, and updates itself — or `GhostR

iGhostVT 1.4.19 brings every tab back at launch without asking, keeps remote tabs connected for a moment after you leave the app, and lets an accessory key send text of any length; it connects to devices on any 1.4 release.

• The launch asked whether to restore the last session, and the answer was always Restore. It no longer asks: every terminal the last run left comes back as a tab, and iGhostVT now reopens the tabs it had open on your other devices too, as Ghost Remote does.
• Switching to another app for a moment dropped every remote tab's link, so coming back meant a reconnect and a replay, and a transfer in progress was cut off. With a remote tab open, the links now stay up for the short while iOS allows an app in the background.
• A custom accessory key could hold at most three characters. It now takes any text and sends all of it; the key shows the first four characters on one line, where a long label used to wrap over three lines of the button.
• On iPad, bringing up the keyboard pushed the sidebar up with it, settings button and all. The sidebar now keeps its full height.

Choose iphoneos-arm64e for roothide, iphoneos-arm64 for a rootless bootstrap, iGhostVT-1.4.19-macos-notarized.zip for a Mac — it is signed and notarized, so it opens without clearing quarantine — or GhostRemote-1.4.19.ipa for an iPhone or iPad without custom firmware, which your sideloading app signs as it installs it. To run the relay, use the attached compose.yml; the image is `ghcr.i

iGhostVT 1.4.11 keeps its log in a folder of its own, which installing the package now prepares; it connects to devices on any 1.4 release.

• On an iPhone or iPad with custom firmware the log sat loose in the Documents folder every app without a container shares, and where a bootstrap had left that folder owned by root there was no log at all. It now lives in Documents/wiki.qaq.iGhostVT, which installing the package creates for mobile, with Documents itself where it was missing.

Choose iphoneos-arm64e for roothide, iphoneos-arm64 for a rootless bootstrap, iGhostVT-1.4.11-macos-notarized.zip for a Mac — it is signed and notarized, so it opens without clearing quarantine — or GhostRemote-1.4.11.ipa for an iPhone or iPad without custom firmware, which your sideloading app signs as it installs it. To run the relay, use the attached compose.yml; the image is ghcr.io/owngoal-dev/ighostvt-relay, and the digest is in relay-image.txt. SHA-256 sums are in SHA256SUMS, and the Mac app's in SHA256SUMS.macos.

iGhostVT 1.4.6 updates its terminal library and changes nothing you use; it connects to devices on any 1.4 release.

• The terminal library is now libghostty-spm 2.2.2026100703. Its one fix, a background color that stayed light in dark mode, never showed in iGhostVT, so terminals look and behave as they did in 1.4.5.

Choose iphoneos-arm64e for roothide, iphoneos-arm64 for a rootless bootstrap, or iGhostVT-1.4.6-macos-notarized.zip for a Mac — it is signed and notarized, so it opens without clearing quarantine. To run the relay, use the attached compose.yml; the image is ghcr.io/owngoal-dev/ighostvt-relay, and the digest is in relay-image.txt. SHA-256 sums are in SHA256SUMS, and the Mac app's in SHA256SUMS.macos.

Updated to 1.4.5 (from apt.owngoal.dev).

Updated to 1.3.3 (from apt.owngoal.dev).

Initial release.