Dont own an iphone myself, but know a couple of people that are using localsend to transfer files between their pc and phone.
It's not in the Debian repositories but on the website provides both a .deb package and an appimage. You can try if it works for you. https://localsend.org/ On Wed, 13 May 2026, 21:48 Jerome BENOIT, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > Doc > > > >
