Can't start tunnel on physical device iPhone X, iOS 16.7.11

[gavyn-ezell]

Describe the bug
Can't start tunnel on physical device. Continuously gives an unsupported error and retries. Is iOS 16.7.11 supported?

To Reproduce
Just installed go-ios through npm install -g go-ios@latest

I have tried ios tunnel start, sudo ios tunnel start, ios tunnel start --userspace , and ENABLE_GO_IOS_AGENT=user ios tunnel start.

What output should I be expecting on a successful run of the command?

Screenshots

Desktop

• macOS: Sequoia 15.4
• Device: MacBook Pro, M4

Smartphone:

• Device: iPhone X
• OS: iOS 16.7.11

[shamanec]

iOS 16 does not require a tunnel, tunnels are for iOS 17+

[danielpaulus]

As shamanec said, tunnels only exist for iOS 17+ — on iOS 16.7.11 there is nothing to start, and all go-ios commands work directly without ios tunnel start. The repeated unsupported/retry log noise you saw when the agent keeps probing an iOS 16 device is addressed by PR #809 (warn once, then permanently skip unsupported devices). If a specific command fails on your iPhone X without the tunnel, please open a separate issue with its output.

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