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You can’t do backup or sync the Photos.app to a random cloud. The “integration” here is just that occasionally you can save to and load from your server. That’s

You can’t do backup or sync the Photos.app to a random cloud. The “integration” here is just that occasionally you can save to and load from your server. That’s all.

SilverRed 5y ago
I don't think you can do the full device backup on anything but icloud and I agree that should change but your own storage has the same access as google does on ios. You can have your own photos app which automatically uploads everything in the photo roll and can delete photos to keep them in sync with your cloud.
- acomjean 5y ago
  Based on what I’m seeing with google one and box’s iOS app, I’m going to agree. You can try to back up your pictures but it’s always a compromise. I ended up just plugging the iPhone into the computer and exporting the photos that way.
  - SilverRed 5y ago
    iOS is opening up to 3rd party services quite a bit in recent releases. The files app and allowing setting default apps are nice improvements which have come recently. As well as allowing 3rd parties in the find my network. I think we could see full device backups to other cloud services later. I guess the problem is they would want to provide a specific api for 3rd parties to implement rather than trying to drop a 256GB zip file on google drive with no differential backups.
    - cunthorpe 5y ago
      Backups are so personal, complex, and niche that I doubt we’ll ever see Apple opening that up to third parties. Ever. It just won’t happen. Normal people don’t care about backups and Apple makes money through iCloud backups.
- kondro 5y ago
  You can absolutely do a full device backup on any computer via Finder on Mac and iTunes on Windows.
  - cunthorpe 5y ago
    The conversation is about cloud though. Local backups are nice but that means connecting the phone daily to my turned-on computer instead of just plugging it into the wall every night.
- cunthorpe 5y ago
  Yes there are plenty of photos apps but they’re no Apple Photos and they can’t upload in the background unless you open them regularly. Unfortunately they’re not as convenient. Chances are that they’re one-way syncs too, like Google Photos.
hedora 5y ago
PhotoSync will sync your photos to > 20 different destinations, most of which are cloud providers. It supports ssh (sftp), which is what I use it for. You can set an iOS geofence (without sharing your location with it) so it automatically syncs each time you come home. No affiliation; happy user.

You can’t do backup or sync the Photos.app to a random cloud. The “integration” here is just that occasionally you can save to and load from your server. That’s all.

SilverRed 5y ago

I don't think you can do the full device backup on anything but icloud and I agree that should change but your own storage has the same access as google does on ios. You can have your own photos app which automatically uploads everything in the photo roll and can delete photos to keep them in sync with your cloud.

acomjean 5y ago
Based on what I’m seeing with google one and box’s iOS app, I’m going to agree. You can try to back up your pictures but it’s always a compromise. I ended up just plugging the iPhone into the computer and exporting the photos that way.
- SilverRed 5y ago
  iOS is opening up to 3rd party services quite a bit in recent releases. The files app and allowing setting default apps are nice improvements which have come recently. As well as allowing 3rd parties in the find my network. I think we could see full device backups to other cloud services later. I guess the problem is they would want to provide a specific api for 3rd parties to implement rather than trying to drop a 256GB zip file on google drive with no differential backups.
  - cunthorpe 5y ago
    Backups are so personal, complex, and niche that I doubt we’ll ever see Apple opening that up to third parties. Ever. It just won’t happen. Normal people don’t care about backups and Apple makes money through iCloud backups.
kondro 5y ago
You can absolutely do a full device backup on any computer via Finder on Mac and iTunes on Windows.
- cunthorpe 5y ago
  The conversation is about cloud though. Local backups are nice but that means connecting the phone daily to my turned-on computer instead of just plugging it into the wall every night.
cunthorpe 5y ago
Yes there are plenty of photos apps but they’re no Apple Photos and they can’t upload in the background unless you open them regularly. Unfortunately they’re not as convenient. Chances are that they’re one-way syncs too, like Google Photos.

hedora 5y ago

PhotoSync will sync your photos to > 20 different destinations, most of which are cloud providers. It supports ssh (sftp), which is what I use it for. You can set an iOS geofence (without sharing your location with it) so it automatically syncs each time you come home. No affiliation; happy user.