I have followed the trouble shooting tips for determining if KDE connect can talk to my Apple Iphone 14. The results indicated that the Iphone indeed saw the TCP packets. But the KDE connect app on the Iphone still shows no devices. How can I successfully trouble shoot and determine the actual problem here?
Do you have a firewall running?
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Just from personal experience, I’d say it can be flaky, both on my old iphone SE and my new Android phone.
Sometimes logging out/in will fix it… sometimes I try to browse the phone and it gets a bit crazy…
So patience 
The biggest issue with iOS, I believe, is that you can’t close the app and have it connected.
No! no firewall at all.
I purposefully do NOT have any firewall. I think the Iphone is blocking though.
I just pulled up my ipad and Galaxy phone and met with similar frustration.
I have 1 Desktop, 1 Android phone, 1 ipad. With the ipad, I must continually hit “refresh discovery” to bring them back because iOS likes to shut things down (with the phone, I have it set so that I must start it and stop it manually whereby it’ll stay running in background).
I see them all - and when selecting text in CopyQ (specifically advertising text in Thai, with icons, used with a Facebook group post) I can paste that both on the phone and the ipad.
However, the ‘input’ feature isn’t working from iOS (with the phone, I can dictate and send text) which means I can use the microphone and dictate. ภาษาไทยก็ใช้ได้
Did you manage to work it out yet? Unpair and start over again - check Wifi etc. It should work, though more frustratingly with iOS than with Android (still not perfect).
I just grabbed my son’s iphone 13, installed KDE Connect, then refreshed and added my desktop and sent a picture.
Ben:
Thanks for a hint, that the Iphone 13 works okay. I suspect Apple put more blocking in on the internet side of things, so while it will answer the TCP packets okay, it still refuses to establish connection.
Honestly Apple should care more for the Linux community than they do and get something working for image data transfers.
I don’t know - a lot of guessing here, they just make it hard to see what’s occurring and I can’t figure out how it’d be a hardware thing, as all iOS devices should run the same OS/version.
I had Telegram and Discord set up with a personal server - so I would send images to ‘SteelLegend’ in Telegram and they’d be available on my ipad/desktop/iphone - but also to family.
Sometimes I love Apple’s wall when it works smoothly and more intuitively than Android, but certainly when it comes to my music, or throwing a new custom alert specific to a contact or specific software - it’s ridiculous.
I guess they have to increase profits to prepare for upcoming fines and sanctions from the EU