libimobiledevice VS ios-webkit-debug-proxy

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 looked into the following package: https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy

Check out Google's WebKit Debug Proxy project. It's built on the same open source remote debugging protocol that macOS uses to talk to iOS Safari. It's not quite the same as having access to the browser on your desktop, but both macOS Safari and iOS Safari are built from the same codebase these days iiuc.

I've googled it but all i've found is https://inspect.dev/ which i need an ios to inspect (but seems to be a nice tool) and this devkit https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy which frankly I don't know how to use i've installed it but I don't know how to even start to use it.