libimobiledevice VS ifuse

No smartphone these days gives you access at the mass storage level anymore (because it causes issues for concurrent access from the phone and computer, because there's often encryption etc.), so the underlying file system in this scenario is completely irrelevant and has no bearing on you being able to access the phone's data on Linux.

Android uses MTP or PTP (can't remember which) for that type of access, while iOS uses something proprietary, but there's a Linux implementation that worked reasonably well for me last time I had a Linux laptop: https://libimobiledevice.org/

It even supports WiFi, so you can have automatic backups every night while the phone is charging. Also the protocol has been reverse engineered, it’s possible to use a Linux server instead of having to use iTunes on windows or buying a Mac..

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/...

Install libimobiledevice Manually https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice [Remove the (libimobiledevice-glue-dev \) line from the first command for it to work]

On Linux you can use libimobiledevice’s (1) idevicebackup2 to backup an iOS device.

1: https://libimobiledevice.org/

Maybe something like https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice? I'm not sure, I haven't tried to do this.

Where would one begin to look stack wise? Ive looked into some C libraries and https://libimobiledevice.org is the only clue I’ve got.

I already tried a non-jailbreak way of doing so by using libimobiledevice. Unfortunately, this library doesn't work via network, it can only shutdown devices with usb connection.

"libimobiledevice is a cross-platform software library that talks the protocols to interact with iOS devices." - libimobiledevice

I've been using ifuse on Linux for years.

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse

I type "ifuse /mnt/iphone" and there is a DCIM/###APPLE dir with the images and videos where I use "cp -a" to copy the files to my computer

That directory doesn't work with Möbius Sync however, it gives an error when you try to set it as the local path for sync. Also, I can't figure out how to access that from Linux via ifuse: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse/issues/58

> Also can't even copy files off device easily.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33898890.

> Can't put custom apps on devices easily.

You will, from May, thanks to the EU Digital Markets act.

> [...] simple tasks like....copying photos to a usb...browsing files on my phone on a pc.

You can do this with ifuse: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse - used it literally 2 days ago to back up a couple tens of GB of photos and videos. Works great.

ifuse is way betteer

Linux I use https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse