A while ago, almost a year now, I wrote about Terminal for iOS. Now with the iPad Pro 2018 being available — and even before that with the release of the first iOS 12 beta in June — I‘ve started using the tablet more and more again. It also didn‘t help that the display of my MacBook Pro went in for service because of a display discoloration and yet another keyboard issue.
This meant I went out to look for a new ssh client for work. For the past few months I‘ve primarily been using Termius instead of Prompt 2. The main reason is that development of Prompt seems to have been halted for a while and Termius offers a couple of features, for example Mosh support.
At the same time there‘s also been a nice development called iSH, a shell for iOS which allows you to use a growing number of tools that you‘re used to on Linux on your iPhone or iPad. It‘s available as a beta on TestFlight or you can clone it from their GitHub repository.