Linux iPhone Photo Sync (LIPS)

This project provides a small Bash script that does an incremental synchronization of the photos on your iPhone to a Linux machine.

It also exports all photos from HEIC to JPEG format in a separate directory.

Features

1. Incremental sync from iPhone photos to a local directory
2. Export of all HEIC images to JPEG
3. Fully automatic operation

Installation

Before you can run the script, please install the following packages:

sudo apt install libimobiledevice6 libimobiledevice-utils imagemagick

Running the Script

You simply run the script without any parameters.

./lips.sh

The script will create the following directories:

Directory	Purpose
~/mnt/iPhone	Mount point for the iPhone (source from where to copy the files)
<picture-dir>/iPhone/original_photos	Directory to which the original photos are synched
<picture-dir>/iPhone/exported_jpgs	Target directory for JPGs convered from HEIC

Developer Information

If you want to build the project, please install the following additional packages

sudo apt install shellcheck

Static Code Analysis

To run static code analysis, please execute:

tools/shellcheck.sh