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Table of Contents Unlock your iPhone Connect and login into your raspi Update - Retrieve new lists of packages Upgrade - Perform an upgrade Install the necessary packages Connect the iPhone with the raspi via USB Accept the trust dialog on the iPhone Pair the phone Accept another trust dialog the on the iPhone Create a mount folder Mount the iPhone Approve success Summary of all commands to…

Table of Contents

Unlock your iPhone
Connect and login into your raspi
Update - Retrieve new lists of packages
Upgrade - Perform an upgrade
Install the necessary packages
Connect the iPhone with the raspi via USB
Accept the trust dialog on the iPhone
Pair the phone
Accept another trust dialog the on the iPhone
Create a mount folder
Mount the iPhone
Approve success
Summary of all commands to copy/paste

Environment:

iPhone 5SE iOS 11.0.1 (15A402)
Raspberry Pi 3 (4.19.66-v7+)

Most of the steps below are a gist of this blog post¹

Unlock your iPhone

Unlock/Enter the pass-code (in case you have one) on your iPhone in order to avoid errors.

Connect and login into your raspi

Existence of an entry ‘Host raspi’ in ~/.ssh/config is assumed:

ssh raspi

Update - Retrieve new lists of packages

sudo apt-get update

Upgrade - Perform an upgrade

sudo apt-get upgrade

Install the necessary packages

sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils

sudo apt-get install usbmuxd

sudo apt-get install ifuse

Connect the iPhone with the raspi via USB

Accept the trust dialog on the iPhone

Pair the phone

idevicepair pair

SUCCESS: Paired with device 3b9...

ERROR: Please accept the trust dialog on the screen of device 3b9...
, then attempt to pair again.

Accept another trust dialog the on the iPhone

Create a mount folder

sudo mkdir /mnt/iphone/ --verbose

mkdir: mkdir: created directory '/mnt/iphone/'

Mount the iPhone

Consider storing this command as a shortcut to your desktop for convenience:

ifuse /mnt/iphone/

Approve success

tree -d -L 1 /mnt/iphone/

/mnt/iphone/
├── Books
├── CloudAssets
├── DCIM
├── Downloads
├── LoFiCloudAssets
├── MediaAnalysis
├── PhotoData
├── PhotoStreamsData
├── Photos
├── PublicStaging
├── Purchases
├── Radio
├── Recordings
└── iTunes_Control

14 directories

Summary of all commands to copy/paste

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils
sudo apt-get install usbmuxd
sudo apt-get install ifuse
idevicepair pair
sudo mkdir /mnt/iphone/ --verbose
ifuse /mnt/iphone/
tree -d -L 1 /mnt/iphone/

https://github.com/justinpearson/Raspberry-Pi-for-iPhone-Backup/blob/master/README.md#4-configure-udev-to-run-the-backup-script-upon-the-phone-plug-in-event ↩︎

Connect an iPhone to a Raspi