The first problem that we’ll tackle, is somehow enabling the transfer of files, and documents between an iPhone and a Linux desktop. To do this, you can use something like OwnCloud, along with XAMPP on your Linux system. OwnCloud and XAMPP for Transferring Files Between Linux and iPhone Which brings us to a workaround of sorts. I used PlayOnLinux as the front-end for the software, and then I found out, that Wine will not allow for USB passthrough, so there’s no way that an iPhone will sync with it. You could still use iTunes for everything else, including managing your iCloud Music Library, but if it doesn’t sync with an iPhone, there’s really no use for it. So my first attempt at using an iPhone with Linux was to run iTunes with Wine. Wine (which is a recursive acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a compatibility layer application that can allow a user to run Windows apps on a Linux system (most of the time). So if you have an iPhone, and you’re using a Linux system as your daily driver, you’re kind of out of luck. There are a number of libraries such as “libimobiledevice” that tried to let users sync iPhones with Linux, but not only is it a hassle to get it running, it doesn’t work for iOS 10. iTunes is the only software that a non-jailbroken iPhone will sync with, and it is not available for any Linux platforms, yet. The main problem, with using an iPhone with a Linux system, is the fact that you just can’t sync it.
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