Programmatically browse iOS file system from mac

Question

How can I browse an iOS file system (e.g. iPhone) that is connected via USB to a mac?

I know it is possible because some programs are doing it (e.g. iexplorer or even iTunes itself).

Here are some of the solutions I found:

• Jailbreaking. That is out of the question for me for obvious reasons
• downloading and using third party software like iexplorer. I do not want to do this, because this is closed source software, and I do not know if I can trust it.
• I tried to look into github for open source project that would do something like that, so that I can get inspiration. But I didn't find any project doing something like that.

Answer 1

You can have a look at libmobileidevice suite: https://github.com/libimobiledevice

Specifically ifuse: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse