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nacs 20 hours ago

I ran into similar issues on a mostly stock Ubuntu 24.

When I start the gtk app, it has a scan devices button but it never finds my phone even though I've paired via bluetooth and its on same LAN.

The iOS app just has a spinning icon that goes forever even though it sees my computer name in the 'discovered devices' list.

I tried pairing from CLI and GTK app and no go on Wifi or Bluetooth.

nacs 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I gave it another go with the hint above about the tetherd log:

  tail -f ~/.local/state/tether/tetherd.log
I killed that persistent process (sudo killall), rm /run/user/1000/tether/tetherd.* (to clear the lock file), restarted tetherd after pairing to phone via Linux bluetooth settings.

I was then able to see and pair over wifi and bluetooth. Everything is enabled except Notifications (even though both address book sync + notifications are enabled in iOS bluetooth settings).

Clipboard sync working now as well as send/receive files.

The tether app still has occasional issues re-connecting to tether though when I move in and out of the app.