iphone won't mount as a file storage system ?

[linux guy]

I am trying to mount my wife's iphone to download images and videos
onto a local hard drive.   I am running a fully up to date F16 x64 OS.

I did this several months ago without any issues.

Dmesg give me the following.

[ 1286.087355] usb 2-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
[ 1286.177635] usb 2-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=12a0
[ 1286.177645] usb 2-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[ 1286.177657] usb 2-1.1: Product: iPhone
[ 1286.177659] usb 2-1.1: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
[ 1286.177661] usb 2-1.1: SerialNumber: a10733b8ceb1656487ee7cdf532caad722243961
[ 1286.538215] ipheth 2-1.1:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached
[ 1286.573244] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 1325.917498] ipheth: ipheth_rcvbulk_callback: urb status: -71

I have the usual i device libraries installed, it libimobiledevice,
ifuse, gtkpod, etc.

It appears that Linux is trying to use the phone as a tethered network
connection rather than mounting it as a USB storage device.

Any ideas on how to fix this ?

Thanks !