Up until a few years ago I still manually backed up my iPhone (x4) photos to my PC. The process was terrible, would fail frequently and was slow but I took my

Up until a few years ago I still manually backed up my iPhone (x4) photos to my PC. The process was terrible, would fail frequently and was slow but I took my lumps because I wanted full control over my photos and wasn't ready to pay the Apple tax. I pay the Apple tax now, and curse Apple each time they tell me my iCloud storage is almost full. I have TERABYTES of available local storage but Apple keeps my photos hostage in their shitty iCloud world. I would gleefully go back to managing my own photos if Apple wasn't actively trying to prevent it. /rant