Libimobiledevice

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Revision as of 10:25, 30 December 2021 by imported>Tobias.bora

In order to be able to automatically mount your iOS device (such as an iPhone) when connecting it, you need to install `libimobiledevice` and to activate the `usbmuxd` service.

Add the following to your `configuration.nix`:

services.usbmuxd.enable = true;
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  libimobiledevice
  ifuse # optional, to mount using 'ifuse'
];

You can then mount your device using ifuse:

$ mkdir /tmp/iphone
$ ifuse /tmp/iphone

If you get an error about `ERROR: No device found!`, check the status of `usbmuxd`:

$ sudo systemctl status usbmuxd.service

If you see an error

ERROR: Could not connect to lockdownd on device [...], lockdown error -8

you may need to restart the usbmuxd service as reported [here https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/152592]:

$ sudo systemctl restart usbmuxd.service

(it may take a bit of time)