Re: how to transfer files to/from iPhone?

From	Aleksandr Kaprizkin <alexandr.kaprizkin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: how to transfer files to/from iPhone?
Date	2026-05-13 21:10 +0200
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Dont own an iphone myself, but know a couple of people that are using
localsend to transfer files between their pc and phone.

It's not in the Debian repositories but on the website provides both a .deb
package and an appimage. You can try if it works for you.

https://localsend.org/


On Wed, 13 May 2026, 21:48 Jerome BENOIT, <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> On 13/05/2026 19:27, D. R. Evans wrote:
> > This is one of those things that must be easy... but I've experienced
> only frustration and decided it was time to ask the knowledgeable crowd
> here :-)
> >
> > 1. Running fully up-to-date debian stable, and trying to connect to a
> recently-purchased iPhone 15 with fully up-to-date iOS.
> >
> > 2. The phone is accessing the Internet through the home network (on
> which the debian computer also resides). I can ping the phone from the
> computer.
> >
> > 3. I can also physically connect the phone and the computer using a USB
> cable -- all that seems to do, though, is to start charging the phone;
> nothing pops up on the desktop to tell me that a new USB device is
> connected to the computer. The output from "lsblk" doesn't change when I
> physically connect the phone -- unlike when, for example, I plug in a USB
> drive.
> >
> > Searching the Internet, I found at least half a dozen completely
> different mechanisms that are supposed to allow me to transfer files
> between the devices. I admit that I haven't tried them all, but I did try
> several, and none of them behaved at all the way that the posts claimed
> should happen; there just seems to be no communication at all between the
> phone and the computer (except that pings work). I get the feeling that
> perhaps there's some basic setting (on the phone?) that everyone is
> assuming I've set....
> >
> > So, although I hate to bother people here with such a trivial request:
> can someone provide a step-by-step procedure for read/write mounting an
> iPhone on debian stable that is sufficiently foolproof that this particular
> fool is likely to experience success?
> >
>
> Personally I can transfer files from my Debian boxes to my iPad  (and
> vice-versa) through ssh/sftp
> via an intermediate server (running Debian) somewhere on the web.
> On the iPad I use terminus [1].
>
> [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/termius-modern-ssh-client/id549039908
>
>
> hth,
> Jerome
>
> >    Doc
> >
>
>

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Re: how to transfer files to/from iPhone? Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net> - 2026-05-13 20:50 +0200
  Re: how to transfer files to/from iPhone? Aleksandr Kaprizkin <alexandr.kaprizkin@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 21:10 +0200
    Re: how to transfer files to/from iPhone? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2026-05-13 23:50 +0200
    Re: how to transfer files to/from iPhone? Loïc Grenié <loic.grenie@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 07:10 +0200
      Re: how to transfer files to/from iPhone? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-05-15 19:00 +0200
    Re: how to transfer files to/from iPhone? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2026-05-15 17:20 +0200

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