Re: iPhones and Linux

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From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject	Re: iPhones and Linux
Date	Mon, 18 May 2026 18:17:08 +0200
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On 2026-05-18 15:32, Lars Poulsen wrote:
> On 2026-05-17 22:34, Jack Strangio wrote:
>> I find that Apple shit has Windows drivers available, but often
>> won't have drivers available for Linux.
>> 
>> Specifically, I have an iPod Nano and I have an IPhone SE. I can't
>> put music on the iPod - so don't use that any more. But I need to
>> get my photos off the iPhone still, and that I might do every 3
>> months or so.
>> 
>> Yes, I know.  DON'T BUY APPLE SHIT!  And nowadays I refuse to.  My
>> most recent phone purchase was when I bought a Huawei phone in
>> France a couple of years back.  I plan to migrate to that
>> exclusevely when I get a spare month or two.
> 
> I love my iPhone (XR); I also have an (older) iPad. And my wife has
> an iPhone 16 plus, and an iPad, and she used to have an iMac until
> she gave up on computers!
> 
> For a few years I have used a program call icloudpd (iCloud Picture 
> Downloader) to pull thousands of images and videos from the phones
> into the 600 GB photo archive on my Fedora server. In a recent iOS
> update, it broke - authentication fails. Apparently, a flag has been
> set indicating that my wife's account no longer permits remote web
> access. Mine still works.
> 
> I have tried to ask i Apple support forums and in "official" Linux 
> support forums, but the Linux people refuse to engage, because it is
> an Apple problem, and the Apple people says they do not engage with
> Linux.

In the "official" Linux support forums I know, people do not refuse to
engage; we simply do not know Apple things.

> 
> The alternative is to mount the DCIM folder on the phone as a USB
> drive. That should still work, although I have not tried it
> recently. It is somewhat clunky, because the USB drive presented to
> the host is a synthesized view of iCloud pictures, and when you have
> tens of thousands of pictures in the cloud, the timing can get very
> fiddly.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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