Failed to connect to lockdownd
After a recent holiday I wanted to download the photos from my iPhone – something I’ve long been able to do in Linux. Upon following my well trodden process, I was greeted with an unfamiliar error message
$ ifuse /media/kieran/iphone
Failed to connect to lockdownd service on the device.
Try again. If it still fails try rebooting your device.
Some reading around the subject revealed that encryption needed to be disabled on the libimobiledevice module that is used under Linux to pair with the iPhone. Rather than go to the effort of modifying the source myself, some helpful chap has already done this and published the code and usage guide to GIT. Hope this pointer helps someone who is stuck trying to access their phone.
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