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Virtualized OSX can't see iPhone device
Inspired by this thread, where the new USB handling system introduced in El Capitan was discussed, I've attempted a very simple settings change in my VM configuration that managed to resolve the ...
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How can I mount an iPhone as a drive on OS X
There the handy plug-n-play tool iExplorer that slhck mentioned.. but I am not a fan of paying $35-50+ for a one time use just to mount a filesystem; especially when I already paid a ton of money to ...
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How to open Apple iOS .AAE file?
Is a way to open and access the cropped version of the image or other information in the .AAE file?
.aae files are only used by iOS and OS X 10.10+.
They can be viewed by a text editor to see what ...
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"Device is unreachable" Error message when trying to import media from iPhone to Windows 10 PC
I was able to fix this problem by simply changing a setting on my iPhone. If you have the same problem, go to Settings/Photos and scroll down to "Transfer to Mac or PC." "Keep Originals" should be ...
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Find out rotation metadata from video in ffmpeg
Applied to your question, in concrete terms, you can get the rotation by:
ffprobe -loglevel error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream_tags=rotate -of default=nw=1:nk=1 -i in.mov
Legend:
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Bluetooth audio from an iPhone to windows 10 PC (A2DP sink)
I was able to find the answer on microsoft forums here
I have included the quote, as the answer is a ways down. The user Celestrion stated:
Microsoft's Bluetooth stack presently supports only the &...
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How to connect iPhone to Internet by USB cable?
Actually it is possible. I'm working on a mac, so I'll provide you a solution for a mac computer.
Go to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet sharing
Choose where are you willing share the ...
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Do I need a Nextcloud client on my Linux computer to access the photos synced from my iPhone?
No, you do not need the client on the server. The server software is what the remote clients connect to. The client is not needed for the server to work.
There could be some cases where you would ...
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Bluetooth audio from an iPhone to windows 10 PC (A2DP sink)
2020-05-29 Update:
Microsoft is re-adding A2DP sink support to Windows 10 in version 2004.
Please find the more detailed version of this answer here.
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Detect if iPhone is active on network
The best solution I could come up with is to nmap -p 62078 IP-ADDRESS | grep "62078/tcp open". If the iPhone is not seen in 60 minutes, it is marked as away.
See https://github.com/Znarkus/homie/blob/...
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Can't Mount iPhone 5 in Linux - lsusb finds device / no dmesg / ipheth command not found / idevicemount device not found
Did you reinstall all packages ?
// ifuse libimobiledevice usbmuxd
To test open two terminals:
terminal1:
# usbmuxd -f -v
terminal2:
# idevicepair pair
# idevicebackup -i backup --full backupdir
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After IOS 10.0 update, iPhone does not show in "My Computer"
When I got my iPhone 7, it had ios 10.1, and File Explorer on Windows 10 could not show the phone as an external drive. What fixed it (on two different make and model pcs):
Open Device Manager
Under ...
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Why am I unable to sudo past permissions on the “~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync” directory in macOS?
Open System Settings... (from Apple menu; top-left of screen).
Click on Privacy & Security from the left pane.
Click Full Disk Access under Privacy.
Toggle the switch for Terminal.
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Find out rotation metadata from video in ffmpeg
The location of orientation/rotation metadata got changed in ffmpeg from stream_tag to side_data and the name changed from 'rotate' to 'rotation'.
An updated version of @Agile Bean's would be:
fprobe -...
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Find out rotation metadata from video in ffmpeg
Use ffprobe, like this.
ffprobe -i in.mov
This should result in showing a "rotate:" field somewhere in the output if such a field is present in the file.
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How do I enable TLS 1.3 in iOS and MacOS?
According to WWDC2017:
TLS 1.3 is not enabled by default
You can enable this on iOS with this provisioning profile
You can enable this on MacOS with this command in Terminal
sudo defaults write /...
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How to open Apple iOS .AAE file?
I was having this problem, but I realised windows has saved the edits! If you have a photo with an accompanying aae file, windows/apple is somehow making a copy of that photo. For example, if you have ...
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Bluetooth audio from an iPhone to windows 10 PC (A2DP sink)
It seems like Microsoft has disabled A2DP sink capabilities since Window 8,
or it just doesn't work anymore.
You could try to download and update the audio driver with software supplied
by the ...
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I have received a E-mail and the ‘To:’ address is not mine
The email message format and protocol makes a distinction between:
The "envelope address" - the address stated in the SMTP interaction between the SMTP server (your email server) and the ...
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Can I retrieve a contact image from the iPhone contact list?
Sync contacts to iCloud
Go to www.icloud.com
Open the contacts and search for the contact
Double click on the contact image.
It will open with a black circle around it. Right click and "Save image as"....
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Unable to access website on Safari (iPhone) after renewing SSL certificate
Recent certs from StartSSL are suspect because of misconduct by its new owner WoSign and Firefox 51 is scheduled to distrust them in a few weeks. Google says the same for Chrome 56.
Apple's ...
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Sync mac iCal calendar with outlook calendar
I finally found the solution and as I told it's very easy.
on Mac:
Settings -> Internet accounts -> Add account -> Exchange -> Enter your Outlook credentials -> check "Sync Mail" button.
Voila, all ...
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Can my personal iPhone be wiped remotely via Exchange ActiveSync?
If I'm reading the documentation on this feature correctly, then if the account is added as a system-wide account, the answer is yes. If you are just using the Outlook app and have your Exchange ...
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Easiest way to convert HEIC to JPEG or PNG
This sounds like a two-part question. Richard has answered the first part, downloading/converting the photos already in HEIC.
The second part is about never getting photos in HEIC format. Sounds like ...
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Fastest way to bluetooth tether a phone in Windows 8
You can bind Win-B to tether Bluetooth.
As suggested by Techie007 create a shortcut by going to "Devices and Printers" right-clicking the phone and selecting "Create shortcut".
Put the shortcut in a ...
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Bookmarks - sync OS X Firefox with iPhone / iPad Safari
Firefox now provides sync functionality on multiple devices, which also includes open tabs.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/sync/
There are a few things that currently don't work well with ...
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Can't Charge iPhone with Windows with restricted USB Policy
USB should deliver one bin of power* at all times. That means it should be able to charge, but very very slowly, though the device might decide not to do this.
If it wants more power it explicitly ...
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Location services on smartphones - which physical network does it use?
Location services on most smartphones made in the last 7-8 years directly communicates with GPS satellites to get location.
From my comment:
It has nothing to do with carrier, IIRC you could throw ...
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How can I find out what Wifi networks my iPhone knows about?
Open 'Shortcuts'
Create Personal Automation
Scroll down and select 'Wifi'
Choose Network to see a full list
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Using Windows 10 Hosts File From Shared Connection
When the PC and iPhone are on the same network, you may set the PC as the proxy
for the iPhone. Here are some solutions that do not require jail-breaking:
Use Microsoft's Fiddler, a free web ...
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