Hello,
On 13/05/2026 19:27, D. R. Evans wrote:
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?
Personally I can transfer files from my Debian boxes to my iPad (and vice-versa) through ssh/sftp via an intermediate server (running Debian) somewhere on the web. On the iPad I use terminus [1]. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/termius-modern-ssh-client/id549039908 hth, Jerome
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