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I upgraded from ubuntu 16.04 to 22.04.

In ubuntu 16.04 I would just plug in my phone to charge, and I could tether internet very easily. The phone just asks for the pin and it worked.

In ubuntu 22.04, I can't make it work.

I have installed: ipheth-utils, libimobiledevice-dev and libimobiledevice-utils following these commands:

sudo apt-get install ipheth-utils
sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-dev
sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils

which I found on this tutorial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGx8JeyGKtk

I also tried to unpair the device and pair it again with

me@mycomputer:~$ idevicepair unpair
No device found.
me@mycomputer:~$ idevicepair pair
No device found.

Also, there is a solution here

tethering iphone 6s and ubuntu 20.04 - not working

saying that one has to upgrade the kernel. Is there a way to avoid upgrading the kernel?

Any ideas are appreciated.

jbustamante
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You could do that with ifuse and a few step, first connect your iPhone to your computer via USB and ensure that "Personal Hotspot" is enabled then open a terminal and enter idevice_id -l if your iPhone is recognized you should see its unique identifier (UDID) listed in the output, then you have to check if usbmuxd is running sudo systemctl status usbmuxd if not do

sudo systemctl start usbmuxd
sudo systemctl enable usbmuxd

then restart NetworkManager sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

Now in your Ubuntu -> Setting -> Network you should have a new wired connection, just click connect to enable usb tethering. if that not work you should try a kernel upgrade.

Saxtheowl
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I am using a version of Kubuntu (KDE). For whatever reason, the "Connect automatically with priority" was set to -100 for the wired connection (iphone USB). Following the advice from Saxtheowl, and setting the priority to 0 worked for me.

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user1069152
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The answer given by Saxtheowl is correct. For me, I also needed to reboot the computer. After that, once the iPhone was connected and in hot spot mode, Pop_OS! (Ubuntu flavor) immediately identified a USB connection and I was immediately connected.

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