[ubuntu-studio-users] Downloading pictures/movies from an iPhone 11

[Mike Squires]

This is for Ubuntu Studio 20.04.4; too many things going on right now to 
upgrade.

For reasons I don't pretend to understand mounting the iPhone as a USB 
device and opening File Managers works sporadically but frequently.  At 
this point it is not working.

The workaround was to use "ifuse" and "libimobiledevice" instead.  The 
former was already installed, the latter had to be installed with "sudo 
apt install libimobiledevice".

Once this was accomplished I executed the following as suggested by 
AskUbuntu:

idevicepair validate

If a SUCCESS message does not result execute

idevicepair pair

and get that message.

Then execute

fusermount -u ~/pics && ifuse ~/pics

and the iPhone will be mounted.  Quite a bit more is visible than is 
usual; the images were found in

/home/<User ID>/pics/DCIM/107APPLE/

If you execute

fusermount -u ~/pics

the iPhone is unmounted or to both unmount and remove the "pics" 
directory execute

fusermount -u ~/pics && rmdir ~/pics

Most of this is copied straight out of the AskUbuntu comment labeled 
"Historical Workaround".

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