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Not if you want to avoid itunes or icloud.

simjnd 4y ago
If you have macOS you don't need either, just plug your iPhone open up "/Applications/Image Capture.app" and it will show your photos. You can select and drag and drop to a disk and delete them all from this app.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  Having it happen automatically is what I was after, and that isn’t particularly easy to achieve. There must surely be a better way than my nasty hack, but I do now have automatic backups of iPhone photos onto a nas: A VM running macOS and a script. Open Photos.app and sync with ‘Download Originals’ checked. Quit Photos.app and rsync the folder ‘Originals’ out of the app bundle and onto a NAS. Once finished, reopen Photos.app. It’s quite horrible getting the script to run as permissions get tricky with chrontab, so I used Lingon X to schedule it.
  - glorioushubris 4y ago
    Maybe try it with an app on the phone instead? I've been using Synology's photos app to automatically upload everything in my photos library to my NAS for a couple of months now, and it's been seamless. Other apps, like PhotoSync, seem to offer similar functionality in a platform-independent way.
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      Thank you - I’ve had this suggested before but just couldn’t get it to work. I’ll have another go as that is obviously way better (and saves running a very large VM).
  - HWR_14 4y ago
    Modern versions of iTunes and modern iOS versions can be set up so that whenever they are on the same network iTunes automatically backs up over WiFi in the background. Then it's just a matter of a cron job pushing the files to the NAS.
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      That’s not a million miles off what I’m doing. It’s unhelpful that there isn’t a built in way to get images out of Photos.app as downloading a full library can use a lot of storage.
  - simjnd 4y ago
    My bad, I misunderstood. Do you do all of this with an AppleScript? I would be really interested to look at this if you have it hosted on a repo somewhere.
0x0 4y ago
Image Capture.app, which is built in to macOS, is very no-nonsense and works great.
acdha 4y ago
You can use an adapter: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD821AM/A/lightning-to-usb-camera-adapter https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD821AM/A/lightning-to-us...
HWR_14 4y ago
I mean, "avoiding backup software on your computer" seems like a big ask for organized backups. But, yeah, I have lightening drives that connect directly to download pictures onto (well, purchased as a gift).. They even also have USB to be read in a computer.

If you have macOS you don't need either, just plug your iPhone open up "/Applications/Image Capture.app" and it will show your photos. You can select and drag and drop to a disk and delete them all from this app.

lostlogin 4y ago
Having it happen automatically is what I was after, and that isn’t particularly easy to achieve. There must surely be a better way than my nasty hack, but I do now have automatic backups of iPhone photos onto a nas: A VM running macOS and a script. Open Photos.app and sync with ‘Download Originals’ checked. Quit Photos.app and rsync the folder ‘Originals’ out of the app bundle and onto a NAS. Once finished, reopen Photos.app. It’s quite horrible getting the script to run as permissions get tricky with chrontab, so I used Lingon X to schedule it.
- glorioushubris 4y ago
  Maybe try it with an app on the phone instead? I've been using Synology's photos app to automatically upload everything in my photos library to my NAS for a couple of months now, and it's been seamless. Other apps, like PhotoSync, seem to offer similar functionality in a platform-independent way.
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    Thank you - I’ve had this suggested before but just couldn’t get it to work. I’ll have another go as that is obviously way better (and saves running a very large VM).
- HWR_14 4y ago
  Modern versions of iTunes and modern iOS versions can be set up so that whenever they are on the same network iTunes automatically backs up over WiFi in the background. Then it's just a matter of a cron job pushing the files to the NAS.
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    That’s not a million miles off what I’m doing. It’s unhelpful that there isn’t a built in way to get images out of Photos.app as downloading a full library can use a lot of storage.
- simjnd 4y ago
  My bad, I misunderstood. Do you do all of this with an AppleScript? I would be really interested to look at this if you have it hosted on a repo somewhere.

0x0 4y ago

Image Capture.app, which is built in to macOS, is very no-nonsense and works great.

acdha 4y ago

You can use an adapter: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD821AM/A/lightning-to-usb-camera-adapter https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD821AM/A/lightning-to-us...

HWR_14 4y ago

I mean, "avoiding backup software on your computer" seems like a big ask for organized backups. But, yeah, I have lightening drives that connect directly to download pictures onto (well, purchased as a gift).. They even also have USB to be read in a computer.