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Apple makes it surprisingly difficult to synchronize photos outside of their iCloud offering and I'm willing to bet that this is no accident.
by nicolaslem 5y ago
Apple makes it surprisingly difficult to synchronize photos outside of their iCloud offering and I'm willing to bet that this is no accident.
- codetrotter 5y agoAlso worth mentioning if it makes a difference, I only need to be able to transfer photos off of the phone (along with info about which albums they belong to as mentioned), and don't need to sync in the other direction onto the phone.
- notyourday 5y agoI'm about to pull the trigger of getting a mac mini just to get it all into the syncthing and autobackups using the following workflow: * iphone -> icloud * icloud -> mac * mac -> syncthing to the backup server Standard backup policies from that point on.
- codetrotter 5y agoIn the end this might be the most simple and workable solution. Still feels kind of bad having to roundtrip all the data through the cloud when trying to get it from one local device to another.
- mosselman 5y agoI use the app PhotoSync with great success. I was about to setup my old MacBook like you described, but now I don’t have to anymore.
- edeion 5y agoYou may be interested in Libimobiledevice that lets you sync an iPhone to Linux. That may work also with a mac? I just found out about this tool from this (recent) thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27758045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27758045