libimobiledevice

libimobiledevice is a large, vigorously maintained cross-platform suite of tools for communicating with iOS devices.

Installation

macOS

With Macports:

sudo port install libimobiledevice

With Homebrew:

brew install libimobiledevice

Linux

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install usbmuxd libimobiledevice6 libimobiledevice-utils

Debian

sudo apt-get install \
    build-essential \
    checkinstall \
    git \
    autoconf \
    automake \
    libtool-bin \
    libplist-dev \
    libimobiledevice-glue-dev \
    libusbmuxd-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    usbmuxd

git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.git
cd libimobiledevice

./autogen.sh \
    --prefix=/opt/local \
    --enable-debug

make

openSUSE

sudo zypper install libimobiledevice6 usbmuxd

Windows

A compiled version of libimobiledevice is available here. Download the .tar.xz file and extract it using 7-zip or a similar program.

You can add this extracted folder to the path by following the walkthrough here