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IFuse is a FUSE filesystem driver which uses libiphone to connect to iPhone and iPod Touch devices without needing to "jailbreak" them. iFuse uses the native Apple AFC protocol over a normal USB cable in order to access the device's media files. Although iFuse is now in a working state it is ...
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<SOLVED>Ifuse? for LM 18.xx to recognise Iphone 5 pic downloads - Linux Mint Forums
September 26, 2018 - im out of my element here since ... usb hookup so he can download his pics etc to his computer...when i researched what i could through startpage, DDG, google, etc. the only thing i see that is remotely close is "ifuse" needs to be installed which is in the repositories...in ...
what is ifuse? I have this on my laptop but I never owned an Apple device.
Does ifuse have any purpose other than interacting with Apple hardware? No. Does it come with Linux Mint preinstalled? It does. Is it possible it was installed alongside some other package that depended on it? Yes. A base install of Linux Mint will pull ifuse from ubuntu-*-core in universe which itself is the base of Mint. More on reddit.com
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October 13, 2020iPhone not showing up in the file system?
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July 14, 2025Linux Mint 21 (Base: Ubuntu 22.04) cant mount device
This used to work perfect on Linux Mint 20.3 (Base: Ubuntu 20.04) now I cant get it to mount using 'ifuse ./root --root' I always get the error: No device found, is it connected? If it is m... More on github.com
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December 28, 2022Why isn’t there any iFuse (or any other free alternative) for windows?
KDE connect? Though I don't know if virtual filesystem works on Windows or with iOS. More on reddit.com
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[SOLVED] Can't mount iphone - Linux Mint Forums
For any users who might need the same work-around (proceed at your own risks, what worked for me might destroy your system): To Download ifuse: 1. Open Package Manager 2. Select SETTINGS | REPOSITORIES 3. Click NEW 4. Make sure "deb" is selected in the dropdown 5. Type the URL of the server/mirror you want to use (the one I chose from the debian website was: http://http.us.debian.org/debian but visit the packages.debian.org site and choose your own ) 6. Type the distribution: wheezy 7. Type the section: main 8. Click OK To install ifuse: 1. Click the RELOAD button in package manager 2. Type "ifuse" (no quotes) in the search/query field 3. Put a checkbox in the ifuse entry/mark "install" To use ifuse: 1. Make sure your iphone is plugged in (and that it shows up using the dmesg and lsusb commands from the terminal - optional, but it doesn't hurt to check) 2.
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Cannot connect to Iphone from Linux Mint - Linux Mint Forums
November 12, 2017 - Topics in this forum are automatically closed 6 months after creation. ... Background: Phone = iPhone SE iOS = 11.1 Linux Mint = 17 (Rosa) Packages (from default respository) libimobiledevice4 1.1.5+git20140313.bafe6a9e-0ubuntu1.1 libimobiledevice-utils 1.1.5+git20140313.bafe6a9e-0ubuntu1.1 ifuse ...
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Installing Fuse - Linux Mint Forums
February 1, 2019 - Topics in this forum are automatically closed 6 months after creation. ... Noob here. Converting from OS to Linux. I've successfully installed R and a few script platforms using the command line, but I can't get this one to work. I'm trying to install the fuse driver so I can access my APFS formatted EHD. Here's what I'm getting: smitty@Rabbit:~$ sudo apt-get install https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse Reading package lists...
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Iphone 4 Mount only if plugged before boot ? - Linux Mint Forums
Questions about hardware, drivers and peripherals Hardware reviews: https://github.com/orgs/linuxmint/discu ... re-reviews · Forum rules Before you post read how to get help. Topics in this forum are automatically closed 6 months after creation. ... Hi, I recently started to interest to mount mi iphone with ifuse and libimobiledevice.
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r/linux4noobs on Reddit: what is ifuse? I have this on my laptop but I never owned an Apple device.
October 13, 2020 -
I'm wondering if somebody else might have been using my computer.
Does ifuse have any purpose other than interacting with Apple hardware? Does it come with Linux Mint preinstalled? Is it possible it was installed alongside some other package that depended on it? Is there any way to trace back how it got on my computer?
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iPhone w/iOS 11.4.1 won't connect to Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.3 - Linux Mint Forums
July 27, 2018 - I am currently in the process of trying to transfer files from Linux Mint to my iPhone, but since Apple products are the bane of my existence, there seems to be no way to actually access the iPhone's files. My computer recognizes it, but does not give me the option to look at any files nor does it prompt me to import anything. I am able to connect to and recognize the iPhone via idevicepair but I cannot get ifuse to actually let me look at the folders.
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backup iphone to linuxmint - Linux Mint Forums
December 29, 2024 - . To install these Linux Apple iPhone / iPad packages, open a console terminal, type in, or copy & paste, each line below one by one: Click "Select All" above command, right click the highlighted command, select Copy (or Ctrl+Insert), click in the console terminal window, and right click paste ("Shift+Insert" or "Ctrl+Shift+v"), repeat for each command. ... sudo apt install ifuse usbmuxd libimobiledevice6 libimobiledevice-utils hfsprogs hfsplus Connecting your device.
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Mounting (or even just recognizing) iPhone? - Linux Mint Forums
determined mount-point path to ...38189a370512d89a1d"` with timeout of 10s ifuse: There was an error accessing the mount point: Input/output error ifuse: command exited with non-zero return code 1 Failed to mount iPhone on /tmp/kde-armina/amarok/imobiledevice_uuid_ea19b120f...
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July 14, 2025 -
Hello, I’ve just recently come across this problem where I can’t see my iPhone show up in ‘Devices’ when it used to do so without no problem.
When I connect the iPhone into the Laptop it gives me the pop up that asks me if I can trust my computer and I put my passcode in to give it permission, but it still doesn’t show up.
What really confuses me is that when I type in “dmesg” into the terminal it shows that it CAN detect it, it’s just not showing up in the file system.
I’ve restarted both my laptop and my iPhone and I’m kinda stumped on what to do now tbh. I just wanna transfer music. If anyone knows what’s going on I’d really appreciate the help. :,)
(Also if anyone’s curious I use the XFCE version of Linux Mint.)
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I had the same problem a while ago. Due to apples closed ecosystem it needs some fidling before it works. update repos and then run sudo apt install ifuse libimobiledevice6 libimobiledevice-utils gvfs-backends gvfs-fuse to get some prerequisite libraries. Connect iPhone via usb and select trust this computer. Ah also enter password. It did ask for mine. After that run: idevicepair pair It should give something like success with a uuid in the end If that happens mount the device after creating a mount directory mkdir ~/iPhone ifuse ~/iPhone Worked for me after I followed some guides online.
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libimobiledevice - how to install on 17.3 linux mint - Linux Mint Forums
After copy/paste of the following code: sudo apt-get install ideviceinstaller python-imobiledevice libimobiledevice-utils libimobiledevice4 libplist2 python-plist ifuse I got the following: reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libplist2 I tried finding the file 'libplist2', but it doesn't showup in the software manager or synaptic package manager searches. ... libplist2 isn't in the repositories, you can find it at packages.debian.org/jessie/libplist2 or github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist.
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[solved] /media/iphone permission denied - Linux Mint Forums
May 12, 2018 - Topics in this forum are automatically closed 6 months after creation. ... Hi I got my iphone mounted using this https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/lin ... os-11.html Pretty straight forward. Now the permissions are changed somehow. The iPhone pairs no problem. Next command to mount is sudo chown <your user>:<your group> /media/iPhone then ifuse ...
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Connecting iPhone (iOS 10) to Linux Mint 18 · GitHub
PKG_CONFIG_PATH and CPATH is used at compile time to resolve dependencies. ... sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev python-dev autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libplist-dev libplist++-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libgcrypt20-dev libgnutls28-dev libgpg-error-dev libfuse-dev libssl-dev cython ... cd ~/usr/src for x in libusbmuxd usbmuxd libimobiledevice ifuse; do git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/${x}.git;done
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[solved]permissions - Linux Mint Forums
May 13, 2018 - Next the mount commands (I created the directories in the first step, /media/iPhone. "sudo chown <your user>:<your group> /media/iPhone ifuse /media/iPhone/" IDK if I don't type it in right or I'm not logged in right but I'm getting permission denied, even if I "sudo -i" or "sudo su."
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Linux Mint 21 (Base: Ubuntu 22.04) cant mount device · Issue #85 · libimobiledevice/ifuse
December 28, 2022 - This used to work perfect on Linux Mint 20.3 (Base: Ubuntu 20.04) now I cant get it to mount using 'ifuse ./root --root' I always get the error: No device found, is it connected? If it is make sure that your user has permissions to acces...
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July 17, 2025 -
My parents are constantly talking about how hard it is to transfer files from IPhone to Windows. Back when my mom had a iPhone she had to pay like 20 euros to access some Chinese app that could transfer upp to 200GB of data. iTunes are like REALLY unintuitive and hard to use (especially for non computer geeks). But when I moved from Windows to Arch, I discovered how easy it is to transfer photos from IPhone to desktop. You just install one FOSS program (iFuse) and have unlimited access to your phone files. Why can’t anyone make something like this on Windows?
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How to mount iphone in Linux/Zorin using ifuse - Tutorials & Guides - Zorin Forum
February 23, 2024 - I have seen some tutorials on here on mounting an iPhone to computer but with more complicated steps. Here I am going to use a package called ifuse to connect an iPhone to computer (Zorin). I had this tutorial at the end of another thread but thought it might help someone in the tutorials section.