Raspberry Pi - Find IP Address and Connect with SSH from iPad - iPhone - iOS

You can connect to a Raspberry Pi using an iPad or an iPhone. Here we use two apps Fing and Terminus. These make it really ease.

• Prerequisite: SSH needs to be enabled on the Raspberry Pi before trying to do this.

• Find the IP address using Fing.
  • Make sure that you are on the same network as the Raspberry Pi. ( ex. same wifi network )
  • Start Fing
  • Tap the button “Scan for devices”
  • You should see a list of IPs/hosts. One of them will be the Raspberry Pi.
  • Try each one of these unless you can obiously tell that it is not a Pi based on the name ( process of elimination ).
  • Optional - you could also scan the ports for each host and look for something with port 22 enabled.
• Connect using SSH with Terminus
  • Open the Terminus app
  • Click the “+” mark
  • Select “New Host”
  • Enter the IP under “Hostname”
  • Save
  • Click on the host entry
  • Enter the username
  • Enter the password

Video Instructions

Apps

This is the Fing network scanner that you can find on the Apple app store:

• Fing Network Scanner

This is the Terminus SSH client that you can also find on the Apple app store:

• Terminus Terminal SSH Client

I’ve been using both of these apps. They aren’t perfect but they work totally fine and I’ve had no real issues so far. They work about as well as I would expect any mobile app to work for this type of thing.