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>Google is not content with me asking them to leave me alone, they would use ML and whatever they have built to figure out where I have been Which is precisely

>Google is not content with me asking them to leave me alone, they would use ML and whatever they have built to figure out where I have been Which is precisely why I stopped syncing my images to Google.

lostlogin 9y ago
What’s the alternative? Apples Photo’s app is perfectly incapable of syncing photos between 2 Macs and a phone as far as I can tell. It’s not cheap and I’m yet to see it work.
- cjsuk 9y ago
  I’m using it with a 45Gb photo library between a phone, a Mac and an iPad with zero problems. It does take a while for things to arrive at all destinations due to my crappy internet connection but for me it works quite well.
- nkristoffersen 9y ago
  I have over 30,000 photos/videos in iCloud (357GB). Synced between my MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad. Works extremely well for me. Set it and forget it.
  - binarysolo1111 9y ago
    Doesn't your iPhone capacity get full up? Can you selectively choose what is synced? Last time I tried (a few years ago) it was all or nothing
    - elnygren 9y ago
      iOS saves space by only keeping thumbnails locally and loading better versions on de-mand. You’re gonna be fine :)
    - nkristoffersen 9y ago
      Everything lives in the cloud. Once the photo has been uploaded only the preview is stored on your phone. When you tap on the photo or use the photo/video, the phone pulls the full file down from the cloud. You can set this in the photos setting. You have the option to store all content locally while also backing up everything in th cloud. However, none of my devices have the space for 357GB of photos so I default everything to “optimize local storage”.
      - zimpenfish 9y ago
        I would like the ability to have a single "always local" folder for putting a selection of photos in. Handy for when you have no network, etc. "Favourites" seems to -almost- have this priority in that they'll more often than not be on the device regardless of age and whether you've specifically downloaded them but it's not -quite- there.
  - zimpenfish 9y ago
    Currently on ~75k photos+videos in iCloud Photos and yeah, syncing is now[1] really good between Macbook, iPhone and iPad. There's times I've saved a photo on the phone and it's been on the iPad before I've swapped devices. [1] It has been flakey as a weasel's taint in the past.
  - bigbugbag 9y ago
    Anything marketed "cloud" is a privacy liability. Using this defeats the whole privacy issue raised here. Besides syncing 357GB requires some serious internet which is a privilege of a limited few.
- vlozko 9y ago
  CloudKit, the API Apple introduced a few years ago and what iCloud syncing is built on, has been pretty rock solid. I think your complaint has been the first one I’ve heard about Photos syncing.
- vaishaksuresh 9y ago
  I use a couple of things. All photos go to my local NAS (QNAP has an app that does this automatically). They also go to iCloud and I don't have the problem you have with it but then again I use it only for mobile photos so I don't really care about sync as much as about backup.
unhammer 9y ago
There's an Android app for https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/ that makes it fairly easy to sync photos between computers+phone, without anything going to the Cloud. (There's a crowdfund going on for an official iPhone app for Syncthing: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7699463-native-ios-port-gui https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7699463-native-ios-port-... )
- zimpenfish 9y ago
  In tht interim, fsync() is a decent read-only Syncthing client. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fsync/id964427882?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fsync/id964427882?mt=8
  - unhammer 9y ago
    My girlfriend tried that on her iPhone, but it often didn't update the list of files, or updated only after a very long time, so she went back to emailing herself stuff. fsync() unfortunately still feels very beta.

lostlogin 9y ago

What’s the alternative? Apples Photo’s app is perfectly incapable of syncing photos between 2 Macs and a phone as far as I can tell. It’s not cheap and I’m yet to see it work.

cjsuk 9y ago
I’m using it with a 45Gb photo library between a phone, a Mac and an iPad with zero problems. It does take a while for things to arrive at all destinations due to my crappy internet connection but for me it works quite well.
nkristoffersen 9y ago
I have over 30,000 photos/videos in iCloud (357GB). Synced between my MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad. Works extremely well for me. Set it and forget it.
- binarysolo1111 9y ago
  Doesn't your iPhone capacity get full up? Can you selectively choose what is synced? Last time I tried (a few years ago) it was all or nothing
  - elnygren 9y ago
    iOS saves space by only keeping thumbnails locally and loading better versions on de-mand. You’re gonna be fine :)
  - nkristoffersen 9y ago
    Everything lives in the cloud. Once the photo has been uploaded only the preview is stored on your phone. When you tap on the photo or use the photo/video, the phone pulls the full file down from the cloud. You can set this in the photos setting. You have the option to store all content locally while also backing up everything in th cloud. However, none of my devices have the space for 357GB of photos so I default everything to “optimize local storage”.
    - zimpenfish 9y ago
      I would like the ability to have a single "always local" folder for putting a selection of photos in. Handy for when you have no network, etc. "Favourites" seems to -almost- have this priority in that they'll more often than not be on the device regardless of age and whether you've specifically downloaded them but it's not -quite- there.
- zimpenfish 9y ago
  Currently on ~75k photos+videos in iCloud Photos and yeah, syncing is now[1] really good between Macbook, iPhone and iPad. There's times I've saved a photo on the phone and it's been on the iPad before I've swapped devices. [1] It has been flakey as a weasel's taint in the past.
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  Anything marketed "cloud" is a privacy liability. Using this defeats the whole privacy issue raised here. Besides syncing 357GB requires some serious internet which is a privilege of a limited few.
vlozko 9y ago
CloudKit, the API Apple introduced a few years ago and what iCloud syncing is built on, has been pretty rock solid. I think your complaint has been the first one I’ve heard about Photos syncing.
vaishaksuresh 9y ago
I use a couple of things. All photos go to my local NAS (QNAP has an app that does this automatically). They also go to iCloud and I don't have the problem you have with it but then again I use it only for mobile photos so I don't really care about sync as much as about backup.

unhammer 9y ago

There's an Android app for https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/ that makes it fairly easy to sync photos between computers+phone, without anything going to the Cloud. (There's a crowdfund going on for an official iPhone app for Syncthing: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7699463-native-ios-port-gui https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7699463-native-ios-port-... )

zimpenfish 9y ago
In tht interim, fsync() is a decent read-only Syncthing client. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fsync/id964427882?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fsync/id964427882?mt=8
- unhammer 9y ago
  My girlfriend tried that on her iPhone, but it often didn't update the list of files, or updated only after a very long time, so she went back to emailing herself stuff. fsync() unfortunately still feels very beta.