How do you get photos off an iPhone 7?

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How do you get photos off an iPhone 7?

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I have been having problems transferring photos from my iPhone 7 onto a PC with the 17.3 Rosa OS.

I plug the phone into the USB port and wait for the folder to appear. Then, occasionally it lets me transfer photos from the phone into a folder on the PC. But usually, it doesn't allow me to do that. Here are the different things that happen: a) Nothing happens when I click on the iPhone folder. b) The folder freezes and then the whole system freezes, and there's nothing I can do to get out of the folder. I can't open Terminal to try out commands that I found by googling them, and I can't open any other application. The menu bar does not appear. None of the key combinations such as ALT+ESC+CTRL or CTRL+F2 work. I have to do a manual shut down of the system and start over. Rinse and repeat several times and then occasionally it allows me to transfer the photos. Often it doesn't, and eventually I give up.

It doesn't matter if the phone is on or off.

Is there a solution?
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Re: How do you get photos off an iPhone 7?

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Hi mrniceguy,

Read this post
Get iphone 7 Plus Photos Into Cinnamon 18.1 [SOLVED] - Linux Mint Forums
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=239521&hilit=iphone


Hope this helps ...
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Re: How do you get photos off an iPhone 7?

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Because Apple® likes incoming money but outgoing is anxiously avoided it is not intended to use an iPhone with any Linux.
A question of good accountancy...
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Re: How do you get photos off an iPhone 7?

Post by mrniceguy »

phd21 wrote: Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:21 pm Hi mrniceguy,

Read this post
Get iphone 7 Plus Photos Into Cinnamon 18.1 [SOLVED] - Linux Mint Forums
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=239521&hilit=iphone


Hope this helps ...
Thank you. I'm going to try out libimobiledevice. In Synaptic Package Manager, which one do I select? libimobiledevice4? libimobiledevice4-dbg? One of the other options?
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