Synchronize with modern iOS devices?

[_sudo11]

Mavericks is a beautiful operating system, it's just that synchronization with a modern iOS device is very scuffed, sometimes Image Capture and iPhoto work, sometimes they don't, I can live with that. iTunes, however, just fails. It asks to unlock the device, then says "Permission Denied" (no error code, iTunes 12.6.2). I think that this problem is rooted in the version of usbd/usbmuxd that ships with Mavericks, it possibly doesn't support some messages that modern devices (iOS 26) send over the wire. If a newer version of usbmuxd were backported, it could possibly work. If it never works, i may just use iTunes 12 in a Windows VM and sync over that.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

I don't use iTunes, but image capture does work when I plug in my iPhone 13 Mini, which runs the latest iOS 26. I'm surprised you're getting Permission Denied? I do have to unlock the device and select "Trust" each time.

 

[princess alyssa]

might be something with itunes thats causing problems ??

 

[_sudo11]

I don't use iTunes, but image capture does work when I plug in my iPhone 13 Mini, which runs the latest iOS 26. I'm surprised you're getting Permission Denied? I do have to unlock the device and select "Trust" each time.

Image capture works, and I can transfer images on and off, but my phone seems to just be sending the wrong packets.

Console says:

6/9/26 6:04:13.118 PM Finder[85016]: AppleEvents/sandbox: Returning errAEPrivilegeError/-10004 and denying dispatch of event syso/exec from process 'osascript'/0x0-0x5b5db58, pid=35570, because it is not entitled to send an AppleEvent to this process.
6/9/26 6:04:13.562 PM usbmuxd[47]: _AMDeviceInsecureNotificationCallback (thread 0x10d481000): Received insecure notification com.apple.mobile.lockdown.request_pair
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error     SavePairingRecord Could not get pair record path from message, client 29279-MobileDevice
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error       message contents:
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        MessageType:SavePairRecord
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        ClientVersionString:usbmuxd-374.913
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        ProgName:usbmuxd
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        PairRecordData:<CFData 0x7f963b409b80 [0x7fff7d1dbf00]>{length = 9441, capacity = 9441, bytes = 0x3c3f786d6c2076657273696f6e3d2231 ... 2f706c6973743e0a}
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        PairRecordID:000080300015495822F3802E
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        DeviceID:1139
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM usbmuxd[47]: _SavePairingRecordWithDeviceID (thread 0x10d481000): USBMuxSavePairingRecord failed for device 1139, 000080300015495822F3802E: Invalid argument.
6/9/26 6:04:14.131 PM usbmuxd[47]: AMDeviceExtendedPairWithOptions (thread 0x10d481000): Could not store pairing record for 000080300015495822F3802E.
6/9/26 6:04:14.132 PM usbmuxd[47]: _AMDeviceInsecureNotificationCallback (thread 0x10d481000): AMDeviceExtendedPairWithOptions() failed: 0xe800000a, (null)
6/9/26 6:04:16.364 PM locationd[66]: NETWORK: requery, 0, 0, 0, 1, items, fQueryRetries, 0, fLastRetryTimestamp, 802733822.2
6/9/26 6:04:17.478 PM configd[18]: network changed: v4(en0:10.0.0.57, en4+:172.20.10.3) v6(en0:2601:18a:8178:6350:3e15:c2ff:febf:b7d4) DNS* Proxy SMB
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error     SavePairingRecord Could not get pair record path from message, client 29282-iTunes
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error       message contents:
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        MessageType:SavePairRecord
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        ClientVersionString:usbmuxd-374.913
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        ProgName:iTunes
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        BundleID:com.apple.iTunes
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        PairRecordData:<CFData 0x7f963b60e5c0 [0x7fff7d1dbf00]>{length = 9437, capacity = 9437, bytes = 0x3c3f786d6c2076657273696f6e3d2231 ... 2f706c6973743e0a}
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        PairRecordID:000080300015495822F3802E
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[47]: error        DeviceID:1139
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM iTunes[6258]: _SavePairingRecordWithDeviceID (thread 0x110d74000): USBMuxSavePairingRecord failed for device 1139, 000080300015495822F3802E: Invalid argument.
6/9/26 6:04:18.167 PM iTunes[6258]: AMDeviceExtendedPairWithOptions (thread 0x110d74000): Could not store pairing record for 000080300015495822F3802E.
6/9/26 6:04:19.124 PM locationd[66]: Location icon should now be in state 'Active'
6/9/26 6:04:19.249 PM configd[18]: network changed: v4(en0:10.0.0.57, en4) v6(en0:2601:18a:8178:6350:3e15:c2ff:febf:b7d4, en4+:2600:382:198:3e9b:acd4:f2ed:cc1d:9ff7) DNS* Proxy SMB