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Related question: what is the situation of getting photos from iPhone to a Linux PC? Is it possible?
by butz 3y ago
Related question: what is the situation of getting photos from iPhone to a Linux PC? Is it possible?
- Scarbutt 3y agoOr any other file, there are methods but not as convenient as airdrop.
- kevviiinn 3y agoI don't understand why someone would choose a computing device that traps them as much as apple devices do. Every time I've tried to get a file off of one, which is something so incredibly basic it should be easy to do, it's next to impossible without using their shitty iTunes software. Why can't a file system just be a file system? Why does it need to be this nonsense? The last time I tried this I was mounting an iPod as a filesystem and everything had nonhuman read bale names and there were a bunch of weird formats. Why on earth is apple so hostile to users?
- donkeybeer 3y agoDoes the iphone let you run an http or ftp server on the device? If so its actually alright, I prefer copying files over lan over fiddling with cables anyways generally. But it is funny how copying files with a cable is not possible with it.
- Scarbutt 3y agoWhat do you suggest? I'm happy with my recent switch to linux desktop but for phones there aren't many options, is android any better?
- kwhitefoot 3y ago> is android any better In this specific respect, most definitely yes.
- kevviiinn 3y agoAbsolutely, android phones allow you to actually control the user space software on the device. The whole baseband processor thing is another topic but overall android allows much greater ownership and control
- livueta 3y agoYeah, probably the #1 reason I use (de-googled) Android over anything else is easy access to the filesystem coupled with allowing background work. I can have Syncthing or Nextcloud passively slurp all my photos in the background while keeping my Keepass db updated.
- ews 3y agoNo idea if it would work on iphone, but on my android setup, I use syncthing to sync photos from my phone to my NAS server.
- kps 3y agoKDE Connect. That's the feature I use most. Open KDE Connect on the phone, select the target computer, ‘Send Photos and Videos’, select the photos, and hit ‘Add’. They end up in a configurable directory on the host. I previously used USB or SFTP apps, but neither is as convenient.
- mmh0000 3y agoIf you use icloud, you can backup all your icloud photos locally. Checkout icloud_photos_downloader[1], they have a docker container that is drop-dead simple to use. I run this[3] about once a month, I could probably automate it, but that feel like it'll take more time than it'll save[2]. [1] https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... [2] https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://xkcd.com/1319/ [3] #!/bin/bash mkdir "$(pwd)"/{photos,cookies} 2> /dev/null if [[ -z "${ICLOUD_PASSWORD}" ]]; then exit 1 fi podman container run -it --rm --name icloud \ -v $(pwd)/photos:/data \ -v $(pwd)/cookies:/cookies \ -e TZ=America/Boise \ icloudpd/icloudpd:latest \ icloudpd --directory /data \ --cookie-directory /cookies \ --folder-structure {:%Y/%Y-%m-%d} \ --username mysuperduper@username.com \ --password "${ICLOUD_PASSWORD}" \ --size original
- adidevsoft 3y ago[dead]
- jpeeler 3y agoCan you do an entire photo collection or is it mostly designed for small groups of files?
- mixmastamyk 3y agoIf libimobiledevice is installed you can mount the filesystem directly in your filemanager and copy them over. On plug-in you'll have to hit the Trust button on the iOS device. There has been a weird bug for a while, if you see "afc://badcafe:3" in the location bar, remove the ":3" at the end to see a proper view of the DCIM folder.