How to use APPLE and iCloud apps and services on LINUX
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00:00 Intro
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01:40 iCloud Account: email, contacts, calendars
04:27 Notes and Reminders
06:13 Photos and iCloud Drive
07:54 Apple Music
08:48 iMessage
09:41 Managing Devices, AirDrop, storage…
11:55 What’s missing
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To add your icloud email address to any desktop mail client on Linux, enter these parameters:
The server for receiving email is imap.mail.me.com. It uses SSL, and the port is 993.
The user is your icloud address, and for the password, you’ll need to generate an app specific password.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204397
As per sending email, the server is smtp.mail.me.com, SSL is needed, and the port is 587. The address and password are the same that you entered for email reception.
For contacts and calendars, the parameters to enter are the following:
As the calendar address, enter https://caldav.icloud.com/ . Your user name is your icloud address, and your password is the app password you generated earlier.
Same goes for contacts, except the address to enter is https://contacts.icloud.com/.
You can access Notes and Reminders through the web portal. They only have the basic features. iWork apps, like Numbers, pages and Keynote are also all accessible.
Now for photos, the web interface is serviceable, you get your albums, a list of pictures, you can upload photos manually and have them show up on all your other devices, but you won’t be able to edit them from here.
There is no auto upload app that will let you send pictures from your desktop to your icloud photo library either, you’ll have to do manual uploads.
There’s a command line utility called icloud photos downloader:
https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
As per files stored in iCloud drive, this one will also only be accessible through the web interface, you can’t mount it as external storage or auto sync files to a Linux desktop, which kinda sucks.
If you use Apple Music, there’s a fantastic Linux desktop client, called Cider.
You can install it from flathub,or as a snap, a debian package, and an appimage, as well as from the AUR.
There is simply no way to access your imessages on Linux. No web interface, no app, no third party client. it’s a closed source program and protocol, and so unless Apple decides to offer a web interface or to open the protocol, you’ll have to keep using your smartphone or tablet to answer these.
## Connecting devices
What if you want to plug in a device and grab its contents on Linux, though? Well, that’s supported. By default, when plugging in your iphone or ipad, it will show up as a camera device, provided you accept that access on the popup that appears on your device. It will show up with a DCIM folder.
It will be mounted as read-only, so you can’t transfer files to it.
You can do that using iFuse: https://www.hukot.net/community/en/tutorials/mount-iphone-in-debian-ubuntu-linux
KDE Connect lets you sync stuff between a phone or tablet, and a linux desktop. It should be installed by default on KDE desktops, and on GNOME, you can install the GSConnect extension. Don’t forget to reboot your computer afterwards, it never worked right after install for me.
On iOS, you can share the contents of the clipboard, send photos or videos, send regular files, use the device as a slideshow remote, run commands, or use it as a virtual touchpad. You can also send files to your iDevice, and they’ll show up in the Files app, in local files, in the KDE Connect folder.
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I just need to transfer my paid itunes music to linux mint, so that I can add it to my new phone that is android.
Which browser are you using ?
honestly, the biggest sacrifice I did when decided to use Linux as main OS was the integration with my iPhone
Apple treats linux users with contempt, like outcasts, and that is really annoying
TL;DR – So basically you cannot do easily what the video title says … And even if you can, then also it won't be that seamless
Why would I want to do this
The only reason for me to have a Mac is xCode for iOS development 😐
What about beeper for iMessage
C'est vrais! Effectivement I did pause the video to read your onscreen message! And thought also leaving a message would help share this video the way it came to my attention!!
Thank you for this video, it’s exactly what I wanted to see, I would like to keep using my iMac 2017 for Linux, as macOS supported is gradually now being phased out for intel Macs. It’s a decent machine and don’t need to buy a new one yet, I just want to keep using it as long as possible, as at the moment I’m not keen on the way Apple implemented storage on their latest machines, seems to be some failures in nearby chips.
"LocalSend" works well as long as your computer and iPhone are on the same Wi-Fi network.
It’s amazing how much shit Apple gives to the user and people keep sucking up Apple, worst phone I’ve ever had outside of the camera
Have you have had the chance to look into “darling”?
Loving this channel thank you so much! Recently installed Ubuntu on my old Mac so this is awesome.
Hi Nick, many thanks!!
We’re still missing a GTK4 Flatpak program that supports iPhone plugged in the Linux PC, and automatically backs up photos and videos on the hard drive. MEGA has a sync features, which is utterly annoying because you have to delete files every now and then to stay under the storage limit, but then because of sync it will reupload them. Neverending circle.
This was useless for me. was expecting to be able to run my logic pro on ubuntu or chrome os by watching this vid. i was misled after seeing apple apps on linux. back to my search
Good luck using iCloud to upload any pic though. Or to photos. Like .png pictures.
As a hard core apple guy I'm looking to move to a Linux desktop for day to day work – your video was very useful – Thanks!
Why would you want this? When I used an iphone, I made every attempt to avoid these poorly-made apps.
how to usr apple keychain in Linux, pkease help
I am in love with the finance app Moneymoney. Is there a way to use it on linux?
Yes I’ve 🐾paused the video ✔️
I'm using home assistant for My homekit defices and to controll my homepod
I am someone who uses an iPhone and isn’t really planning on switching back to android, but is moving my PC to linux, this video is really helpful. Thank you so much!
Just buy a mac 😂
Hi Nick! I'm in the process of getting a Steam Deck but I haven't used a non-MacOS computer in some time. To make the transition easier for me, I'm planning to use Progressive Web Apps on my Steam Desktop. Is using iCloud PWAs like these possible? My current strategy is to download Distrobox on Steam OS and get Linux Mint so I have access to Webapp Manager. Then get desktop shortcuts to Pages and Keynote. Is this possible? Will I have to sign in to iCloud every time? Hoping to hear from you. Thanks.