At Wed, 13 May 2026 11:27:06 -0600 "D. R. Evans" <[email protected]> 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? An iPhone is a partitularly beast to talk to (except maybe with a MacOSX system). You might try using Blutooth. Another option might be using a cloud service as an intermediate transfer option. I have an Android smart phone. It can take a uSD card, so I just transfer files to the uSD card (remove the card from the phone, use a USB uSD card reader and copy files to the uSD card and then replace the card in the phone. Unfortunately Apple would prefer you use their cloud services and don't include uSD card readers in iPhones. > > Doc > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
