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How to access iPhone with iOS 11 in Linux

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How to access iPhone (6s) with iOS 11 in Linux A couple of years ago, I wrote a detailed tutorial on iPhone mount & use compatibility in Linux across multiple distributions. KDE/Plasma struggled with this the most, not seeing and/or not mounting the device automatically. But we did have a relatively neat solution in the form of idevice and ifuse utilities, with some command line hacking. With the release of iOS 11 (and possibly one version earlier) things seem to have changed somewhat. And I have only run and tested iPhone 6 with iOS 8/9. To wit, here's another tutorial to help you work around this. At the moment, I have an iPhone 6s model for testing, and I cannot guarantee this method will work well with newer models, but overall, the procedure should be identical for the rest of the Apple smartphone range. Anyway, after me. Tools of the trade This guide aims specifically at Plasma use, however, we will cover