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

[Mike Squires]

This is a correction to what I originally posted, after trying my own 
advice.

This was used under Ubuntu Studio 20.04.4.

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 (assuming "pics" does not exist)

mkdir ~/pics && ifuse ~/pics

and the iPhone will be mounted. This uses the "pics" subdirectory as a 
temporary directory in order to make certain the iPhone is dismounted 
properly later (see below).

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

The reason for doing this is that just unplugging your phone does not 
correctly dismount it from the Ubuntu side; the dismount is necessary 
and the "rmdir" makes sure it was dismounted.

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