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Honestly, the killers are Google Photos and Google Maps. Google Photos lets me back up photos from my phone AND copy them to my PC. I haven't found any other w

Honestly, the killers are Google Photos and Google Maps. Google Photos lets me back up photos from my phone AND copy them to my PC. I haven't found any other way to copy photos from an iPhone into a laptop (unless you use macOS). Since they already handle my photos, I might as well use it for backups. And Google Maps is pretty uncontested when it comes to moving around. Apple Maps doesn't even have a "biking" option (in a country where > 90% of the population bike everywhere, that's a killer).

arriu 7y ago
Agreed, but... check out the following app https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/moments https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/moments I use it in conjunction with Google Photos as a secondary back-up of the original photos (to the local drive and a thrid-party cloud back-up)
intopieces 7y ago
>I haven’t found any other way to copy photos from an iPhone into a laptop (unless you use macOS). iMazing does this, and is available for MacOS and Windows. https://imazing.com/guides/how-to-transfer-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-photos-to-your-mac-or-pc-computer https://imazing.com/guides/how-to-transfer-iphone-ipad-or-ip...
hello_moto 7y ago
Sorry stupid question: how do you copy the photos from G-Photos to your PC? Through Google Drive?
- datguacdoh 7y ago
  https://photos.google.com/apps https://photos.google.com/apps - they have a utility for Mac and Windows called Backup and Sync.
  - beatgammit 7y ago
    What about Linux? The draw for many of these Linux phones is that they run Linux, so tools work the same between them. I've used third party utilities for mounting GDrive locally, but they're kind of a pain to use and aren't official by any stretch of the imagination. All of my personal computers run Linux exclusively, and only my wife's desktop runs Windows in our house, so Google Photos doesn't mean much to me.
mceachen 7y ago
> I haven't found any other way to copy photos from an iPhone into a laptop Both SyncThing and Resilio Sync work well for this, but require your "server"/laptop to be on in order to sync. You can also just plug in the device, and it should mount as USB storage on both Windows and Linux. (I have no financial interest in either pieces of software, other than regularly needing to recommend them to my PhotoStructure users).
- FalconSensei 7y ago
  So, you have to keep a computer on to sync files. And then, what about automatically tagging people, suggesting fixes (rotation, lights), searching by location name, sharing albums, etc?
  - mceachen 7y ago
    That's what I want PhotoStructure to do. It already has best-of-class deduping, "variant" clustering support, and metadata inference, as well as a UI that makes browsing very large libraries feel serendipitous. I release roughly every month, and it's free (in exchange for feedback) during the closed beta. Here's what's coming soon: https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/ https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/
- robto 7y ago
  Do you know how to get SyncThing on an iPhone? This is the last piece in the synchronize-the-whole-family's-media-so-that-it's-easy-to-share-and-backup project! Last time I checked there was no iOS client.
wazoox 7y ago
I don't know for iPhones, but Dropbox for Android does this too. Now I've switched to my own NextCloud, and it also syncs photos to your personal cloud (and your PC/Mac).

arriu 7y ago

Agreed, but... check out the following app https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/moments https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/moments I use it in conjunction with Google Photos as a secondary back-up of the original photos (to the local drive and a thrid-party cloud back-up)

intopieces 7y ago

>I haven’t found any other way to copy photos from an iPhone into a laptop (unless you use macOS). iMazing does this, and is available for MacOS and Windows. https://imazing.com/guides/how-to-transfer-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-photos-to-your-mac-or-pc-computer https://imazing.com/guides/how-to-transfer-iphone-ipad-or-ip...

hello_moto 7y ago

Sorry stupid question: how do you copy the photos from G-Photos to your PC? Through Google Drive?

datguacdoh 7y ago
https://photos.google.com/apps https://photos.google.com/apps - they have a utility for Mac and Windows called Backup and Sync.
- beatgammit 7y ago
  What about Linux? The draw for many of these Linux phones is that they run Linux, so tools work the same between them. I've used third party utilities for mounting GDrive locally, but they're kind of a pain to use and aren't official by any stretch of the imagination. All of my personal computers run Linux exclusively, and only my wife's desktop runs Windows in our house, so Google Photos doesn't mean much to me.

mceachen 7y ago

> I haven't found any other way to copy photos from an iPhone into a laptop Both SyncThing and Resilio Sync work well for this, but require your "server"/laptop to be on in order to sync. You can also just plug in the device, and it should mount as USB storage on both Windows and Linux. (I have no financial interest in either pieces of software, other than regularly needing to recommend them to my PhotoStructure users).

FalconSensei 7y ago
So, you have to keep a computer on to sync files. And then, what about automatically tagging people, suggesting fixes (rotation, lights), searching by location name, sharing albums, etc?
- mceachen 7y ago
  That's what I want PhotoStructure to do. It already has best-of-class deduping, "variant" clustering support, and metadata inference, as well as a UI that makes browsing very large libraries feel serendipitous. I release roughly every month, and it's free (in exchange for feedback) during the closed beta. Here's what's coming soon: https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/ https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/
robto 7y ago
Do you know how to get SyncThing on an iPhone? This is the last piece in the synchronize-the-whole-family's-media-so-that-it's-easy-to-share-and-backup project! Last time I checked there was no iOS client.

wazoox 7y ago

I don't know for iPhones, but Dropbox for Android does this too. Now I've switched to my own NextCloud, and it also syncs photos to your personal cloud (and your PC/Mac).