wtf is iphone-drive-windows?

iPhone Drive for Windows lets you mount the Documents folders of iOS apps as a regular Windows drive. When you plug in a trusted iPhone or iPad over USB, a small tray application detects the device, picks a free drive letter from I: through Z:, finds apps that have enabled Apple File Sharing, and reports the actual storage capacity of the device. You can then browse, read, write, rename, and delete files inside those app folders through Windows Explorer, just like any other disk. The combined drive shows folders for compatible apps such as VLC, LocalSend, and a-Shell mini. It only exposes the Documents folders of apps that have explicitly opted into iOS File Sharing. Protected system files and the full contents of every installed app are not made accessible. The capacity figure shown is the real AFC storage of the device, not the misleading system-drive capacity that Windows sometimes reports on its own. To install it, you first need Apple Devices from the Microsoft Store, followed by a restart. You then download the setup executable from the repository's Releases page. The first release is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unknown publisher. Running the installer as administrator also installs the Dokan filesystem driver, which is what makes the virtual drive possible. After installation, you connect the iPhone, unlock it, tap Trust, and start iPhone Drive from the Start menu. The mounted drive appears in This PC within a few seconds. The project requires 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and an unlocked, trusted device. It deliberately does not redistribute Apple Mobile Device Support. On the privacy side, all communication happens locally through libimobiledevice. No filenames, files, device identifiers, or diagnostics are uploaded. The original code is MIT licensed, while the libimobiledevice and Dokan runtime components are LGPL. The project is independent and not affiliated with Apple.