Volume 15. Libimobiledevice - Teaching Penguins to talk to fruits. Main « Floola. Using an iPhone or iPod Touch with Ubuntu. This page will help you connect your Apple iPod, iPhone or iPad devices to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr The upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will support devices running iOS7 software version, thanks to newer libimobiledevice. Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Ubuntu will automatically detect when you're plugging an iPad to your computer and will identify (via GVfs) two devices: 'My iPad' and 'Documents on My iPad'.
Once you've "connected" to the 'Documents on My iPad' device using Gigolo, you can access the device via a file manager such as Thunar (>=1.6.x; see Xfce 4.12 PPA) or Nautilus and access the 'Documents' folder of the apps that support the iTunes Document Sharing feature (also called the "House Arrest" protocol). Following is a non-exhaustive list of free apps that support file transfers as described above: Videos or Audio: 'OPlayerHD Lite', 'HD Player' Photos: 'Another Photo Viewer' PDFs or E-books: 'Documents 2', 'ciando Reader' Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Music players Syncing with Amarok. iPodPortugal.