Oh, thank you, kind soul! My phone wouldn’t connect to the Mac Mini M1 nor to the MacBook M4. Today, by some miracle, after poking around in the settings and flipping random developer toggles, I managed to get it to connect to the Mac Mini - and, encouraged by that success, I tried to do the same on the MacBook. But I spent a whole hour and nothing worked. I even tried switching the Network Link Conditioner option. After that, I decided to look up the topic again to see if there was any new info. And yes - it turned out that this very setting was the key. Only in my case, just switching it didn’t help. What worked was the following sequence: Unpair the iPhone (you don't need to unplug the cable from the computer) Enable Network Link Conditioner (don't disable it immediately) Run the command xcrun devicectl device info apps --device "…" The iPhone will ask to allow pairing - allow it Bingo! Everything works now.