ifuse

  • plug in iphone
  • create a directory mkdir ~/iphone
  • ifuse ~/iphone

 problems

is the device detected?

idevice_id -l

try pairing

idevicepair pair

with debug

idevicepair pair -d

check dmesg -w

[  586.629647] ipheth 7-1:4.2: ipheth_enable_ncm: usb_control_msg: 0
[  586.630140] ipheth 7-1:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached

fix the security policy if on Fedora 41

sudo update-crypto-policies --set FEDORA40

syncing metadata

I found this section in the Arch docs that works:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS#Importing_pictures_and_deleting_them Importing pictures and deleting them

You can move photos and videos out of /DCIM/100APPLE, however you need to trigger a rebuild of the "Camera Roll" database by deleting the old databases.

cd /PhotoData

rm Photos* com.apple.photos.caches_metadata.plist