tom231
April 27th, 2016, 07:24 PM
I just upgraded to Ubuntu desktop 16.04 from 15.10. I notice that support for iPhone connectivity has apparently changed. Now when I connect my iPhone (running iOS 9.3.1), a camera icon appears in the launcher (rather than a phone icon), and when I click on this, Nautilus appears with only the DCIM folder available for browsing. In 15.10, a range of folders was accessible (including the PhotoData folder, which is important if you want to delete your photo library after copying the files to an external folder). Further, Rhythmbox no longer sees the iPhone I've connected, so syncing music appears to be unsupported. (I'm less concerned with that, because it never worked for me anyway, but this change in 16.04 suggests that the developers have given up on implementing this.) I've searched Google for any information on libimobiledevice support in Ubuntu 16.04, but find nothing, probably because the release is so new.
Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any insights? I'm relatively new to Ubuntu, so it's certainly possible there's something obvious I need to do to enable full iPhone support in 16.04. Suggestions would be appreciated.
Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any insights? I'm relatively new to Ubuntu, so it's certainly possible there's something obvious I need to do to enable full iPhone support in 16.04. Suggestions would be appreciated.