Issues recognising and backing up iPhone using libimobiledevice

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Hey all, having some issues with libimobiledevice and pairing my iPhone 11 iOS 17.7.1 to my Fedora KDE install via USB. I suspect apple shenanigans at play as it will play nice with a Windows 10 pc and freak out when I connect to Fedora.

First connection allowed me to trust the computer once and it’s been having a hissy fit since. Haven’t been able to trust it again or discover it at all in any way.

Currently it shows as just “Camera” in Dolphin and periodically disconnects and reconnects without any input.

I’ve followed a few guides and forums here:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/iphone-backup-in-fedora/10873

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1awg4tt/fedora_cant_detect_my_iphone (Got to same stage as OP, my cable works fine)

I’ve tried these commands:

idevicepair pair

ifuse /mnt/iPhone

idevicebackup2 backup --full /mybackup

All of which can’t find the device

Help would be appreciated!

(P.S I am planning on replacing that junk with an android phone running lineage most likely but I do still need backups.)

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Solved, usbmuxd was the issue. Running systemctl stop usbmuxd was enough to get idevice_id -l to actually recognise something there and it has since paired fine :slight_smile: