How to access the photos of a plugged in iPhone from macOS?

Question

I want tor write a macOS Application and I'm stuck accessing the data of an plugged in iPhone? It is not handled like a normal USB drive (obviously). Does somebody have a hint? As I'm always getting answers related to iOS, can anybody recommend a resource for macOS development?

Cheers,

Simon

Answer 1

To answer my own question: ImageCaptureCore does the job! There is actually a sample application provided by apple SimpleCameraBrowser.
Another sample for using the framework Creating an Application Using ImageCaptureCore

Thanks for your help!

Answer 2

I am not really sure if this is the best solution, but you can try using libimobiledevice to explore the device file system (even for non-jailbroken devices). Keep in mind that this library is licensed as GPL.