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iPhone Tethering to Raspberry Pi

On the following Raspbian OS (/etc/os-release):

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

With an iPhone 13 Pro, iOS18.2.

Instruction

On iPhone

  • Make sure personal hotspot is on
  • Make sure iPhone USB is disconnected (not sure this is necessary)

On RPi

  • sudo apt-get install usbmuxd ipheth-utils libimobiledevice-utils
  • sudo reboot (not sure this is needed)

On iPhone

  • connect iPhone USB to RPI

  • Trust

Done

The nice thing seems to be that, unlike wifi personal hotspot, it will reliably reconnect after RPI does a reboot -- actually the iPhone says after a reboot that it wants to be unlocked.

Note that phone can be connected to WIFI while USB tethering is active, however the traffic from USB will only be routed on celular, not WIFI.

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