libimobiledevice

That's what I thought at first but then discovered: > universal clipboard is synchronized over internet, it is not done trough cable connection. it uses apple continuity service, what you put into UC is uploaded into apple cloud,.. https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/... That's why I'm a bit confused now. > don't let the "KDE" fool you Being GNOME2-then-MATE user, it really would.

Have a look at https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice and iOS backup projects that are based on it.

It seems to be actively maintained, so I would assume it still works: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

It even supports WiFi, so you can have automatic backups every night while the phone is charging. Also the protocol has been reverse engineered, it’s possible to use a Linux server instead of having to use iTunes on windows or buying a Mac.. https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/...

Maybe something like https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice? I'm not sure, I haven't tried to do this.

You can access the data in an encrypted backup, which you can request from an iPhone from Linux using the open source libimobiledevice: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice Here's an overview of how to remove the various layers of encryption (starting from the backup password): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1498342/how-to-decrypt-a... And how to do it if you want to access the WhatsApp chat database: https://yasoob.me/posts/extracting-whatsapp-messages-from-io... Also some Go tools to inspect iOS encrypted backups https://github.com/dunhamsteve/ios

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/... usbmuxd is responsible for wifi sync. However, it appears there is usbmuxd2 which is compatible with Linux and support wifi sync. I think you may be in luck! If you figure it out, please let me know.

On Arch Linux, I installed libimobiledevice from source (https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice), as the newest version in Pacman didn't connect to my iPhone. I also installed usbmuxd via Pacman.

For restoring a backup to a Linux filesystem, libimobiledevice requires the iOS device to be present, so you will probably want ideviceunback instead, which doesn't have this issue: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/... https://github.com/inflex/ideviceunback

The blog post links to this libimobiledevice bug report: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/... (and the debugging has led them to the kernel driver side of things, not the libimobiledevice side of things)

My main need is cloudless iPhone/iPad backup and access to photos. It seems that libimobiledevice is the most common approach. The libimobiledevice homepage news[1] hasn't been updated in 3 years, but the GitHub[2] seems reasonably active. Has anyone here had good or bad experiences with libimobiledevice or some other option that does not require jailbreaking? [1] https://www.libimobiledevice.org/ [2] https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

Could you use a NAS or external drive on laptop for backup? An 8TB external drive costs $200. https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice