nospam wrote in
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Um, isn't that always in effect whatever any digital camera does anyway
? Or did the Lightning connect thing somehow cripple IOS wrt
read/writability of pix from external devices ?

ios devices have always showed up as a standard digital camera when
connected to a computer, no additional software needed.

Apple, crippling things ? Naaa - not possible.

they do not. quite the opposite. they make things easier, one reason
why their products are so popular.

copying photos from an iphone to a computer doesn't need a lightning
cable.

The Linux ifuse (fuse = Filesystem in USErspace) utility mounts an apple
Iphone FS running IOS 9 perfectly well. IOS 13 not needed.



ifuse --help

Usage: ifuse MOUNTPOINT [OPTIONS]
Mount directories of an iOS device locally using fuse.

-o opt,[opt...] mount options
-u, --udid UDID mount specific device by its 40-digit device UDID
-h, --help print usage information
-V, --version print version
-d, --debug enable libimobiledevice communication debugging
--documents APPID mount 'Documents' folder of app identified by APPID
--container APPID mount sandbox root of an app identified by APPID
--root mount root file system (jailbroken device required)

Example:

$ ifuse /media/iPhone --root

This mounts the root filesystem of the first attached device on
this computer in the directory /media/iPhone.