03 - Libimobiledevice connection - Linux - iOS

Activate developer mode

An access to iOS developer options is needed:

• Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Developer Mode

• Turn on the toggle button and select "Restart"

• When the iPhone restarts, there is a popup "Turn on Developer Mode?". Accept it.

• Go to Settings > Developer and toggle "Enable UI Automation"

Connect device via USB

• Connect the iPhone to a computer via an USB cable

• The first time you connect an iPhone through USB, a popup Trust This Computer? should appear. Click on Trust:

• Run the following command to verify that the libimobiledevice library detects the iPhone:

idevice_id

The UDID of the device should appears.

IPA installation

To run a local test on an iOS device, you need to install the Greenspector ios-testing-tools IPA.

Please follow the steps below:

• Install the ideviceinstaller package with the following command:

sudo apt-get install ideviceinstaller

• Download the IPA by accessing the following URL: http://dl.greenspector.com/ios-testing-tools/ios-testing-toolsUITests.ipa

• Install the IPA on the device with the following command:

ideviceinstaller --install [path_to_ipa]

Replace path_to_ipa by the path of the ios-testing-tools IPA you just downloaded.

Mount a developer disk image

You also need to mount a developer disk image.

You can find the image related to the version of your device at the following location: https://github.com/mspvirajpatel/Xcode_Developer_Disk_Images/releases

Run the following command:

ideviceimagemounter [path_to_developer_disk_image]/DeveloperDiskImage.dmg

Replace path_to_developer_disk_image by the path of your image.