This is one of those things that must be easy... but I've experienced only
frustration and decided it was time to ask the knowledgeable crowd here :-)
1. Running fully up-to-date debian stable, and trying to connect to a
recently-purchased iPhone 15 with fully up-to-date iOS.
2. The phone is accessing the Internet through the home network (on which the
debian computer also resides). I can ping the phone from the computer.
3. I can also physically connect the phone and the computer using a USB cable
-- all that seems to do, though, is to start charging the phone; nothing pops
up on the desktop to tell me that a new USB device is connected to the
computer. The output from "lsblk" doesn't change when I physically connect the
phone -- unlike when, for example, I plug in a USB drive.
Searching the Internet, I found at least half a dozen completely different
mechanisms that are supposed to allow me to transfer files between the
devices. I admit that I haven't tried them all, but I did try several, and
none of them behaved at all the way that the posts claimed should happen;
there just seems to be no communication at all between the phone and the
computer (except that pings work). I get the feeling that perhaps there's some
basic setting (on the phone?) that everyone is assuming I've set....
So, although I hate to bother people here with such a trivial request: can
someone provide a step-by-step procedure for read/write mounting an iPhone on
debian stable that is sufficiently foolproof that this particular fool is
likely to experience success?
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