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USB-C iPhones work with all kinds of USB-C hubs, devices, keyboards, mice, Ethernet adapters, etc out of the box.

As far as I have seen, USB-C on iOS devices has no authentication restrictions for anything.

The device in the article already has an iOS app, so while there may be a needed app entitlement, I don't think there are any showstoppers for making an iOS app for this particular thermal camera.

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I would love to be wrong, but I can't find anything that suggests USB webcams work on USB-C iPhones - I did try in the past for different reasons but couldn't find any way of making it work.

Some USB-C thermal imagers do claim to work, for example this one by HIKMICRO - https://www.hikmicrotech.com/en_us/industrial-products/mini2... - but I'm not sure how...

You are correct. I have the same camera as OP (v1?) but the usbc version does not work with iOS. Can’t understand why. It’s very infuriating.

What surprised me is that iPadOS does have uvc functionality, but iOS doesn't. If you have an ipad with a USBC connector, can try it and will work. For example I used the Orion app for ipad and it will show me live feed of any connected uvc camera.

https://orion.tube/

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