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But none of them work like iCloud. No one but Apple is allowed to make an app that reliably ships your photos to the cloud.
by mcfedr 3y ago
But none of them work like iCloud. No one but Apple is allowed to make an app that reliably ships your photos to the cloud.
- samatman 3y agoThe original comment was about exporting photos, and how "Apple makes it difficult". Which they do not. Syncing is a different story, let's see how this holds up: If you want to sync your iPhone's photos to Dropbox, you give Dropbox permission to access the Photos library and it syncs. https://www.multcloud.com/tutorials/sync-iphone-photos-to-dropbox-1003.html https://www.multcloud.com/tutorials/sync-iphone-photos-to-dr... The company hosting that URL offers a product for syncing between various clouds, I haven't used it but it does exist. https://www.multcloud.com/download https://www.multcloud.com/download So I guess this is another one of those things that just isn't true. Go figure.
- sneak 3y agoNot really. For Dropbox, Nextcloud, Photo Sync, et c to upload your photos, the app needs to remain open; it can't upload in the background for more than a minute or so. This means that only iCloud can do real background syncing. If you want to upload a full camera roll to a non-iCloud service, you're in for a world of frustration. You'll have to disable screenlock and put the phone on a power cord and leave it open with the app up for hours and hours. Of course iCloud doesn't have such limitations. No non-Apple app is allowed to do background sync, no matter what you install. They have put iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos in a privileged position.
- mcfedr 3y agoExporting in real time is the expectation, anything else is subpar.