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Syncthing is a wonderful open source project that I thoroughly enjoyed using when my mobile device was on Android. Everything I needed was synced, all the time.

Syncthing is a wonderful open source project that I thoroughly enjoyed using when my mobile device was on Android. Everything I needed was synced, all the time. Great performance, too. And it was really easy to set up syncing of a particular folder with random people for various projects. I switched to an iPhone for greater privacy, and was crushed to find Syncthing doesn't support iOS. I see that 5-6 years later they still don't. Sad, given the iPhone has a majority market share in the US (60%). I use Nextcloud and it's....okay. There's some weirdness where files I've specified should be always available somehow aren't, but luckily the keepass client keeps an internal/backup copy and is smart enough to open that. iCloud is just...a rolling dumpster fire. And easily the most frustrating thing about it is that there's no way to set up an iPhone without it immediately trying to sync everything to iCloud, like say, your iMessage encryption keys...

baby_souffle 2y ago
> I switched to an iPhone for greater privacy, and was crushed to find Syncthing doesn't support iOS. There is an app that wraps syncthing that is available on iOS but it's still quite gimped[0] due to how iOS does file management. [0]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sync-mac-pc-and-ios-using-syncthing-mobius-sync/72022 https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sync-mac-pc-and-ios-using-syncth...
flanked-evergl 2y ago
I switched back to android for syncthing, totally worth it. I am on a galaxy s24, the battery life is not great compared to my last iPhone, and the camera takes poor photos, but other than that everything is better.
tech234a 2y ago
There's a 3rd-party commercial app that brings Syncthing to iOS [1]. It's essentially a paid app, but periodically they'll release TestFlight versions as betas. [1]: https://mobiussync.com/ https://mobiussync.com/ [2]: https://github.com/MobiusSync/MobiusSync/discussions/194 https://github.com/MobiusSync/MobiusSync/discussions/194
citiguy 2y ago
On IOS there's Möbius Sync, which works perfectly with Syncthing.
talldayo 2y ago
> I see that 5-6 years later they still don't. Sad, given the iPhone has a majority market share in the US (60%). What goes around, comes around. Apple knows they make it hard on developers that want to make the iPhone behave like a normal computer. Same as any Apple platform, you pay the price premium for compatible software and not the other way around. Magic solutions don't manifest on developer-hostile platforms like that, and Apple makes sure of it. After all, they profit off every solution sold on their problem marketplace. > there's no way to set up an iPhone without it immediately trying to sync everything to iCloud, like say, your iMessage encryption keys... So much for "greater privacy" then, huh? Or... do we still think this is a negligible fact?
NotPractical 2y ago
You probably should've switched to GrapheneOS instead.

baby_souffle 2y ago

> I switched to an iPhone for greater privacy, and was crushed to find Syncthing doesn't support iOS. There is an app that wraps syncthing that is available on iOS but it's still quite gimped[0] due to how iOS does file management. [0]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sync-mac-pc-and-ios-using-syncthing-mobius-sync/72022 https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sync-mac-pc-and-ios-using-syncth...

flanked-evergl 2y ago

I switched back to android for syncthing, totally worth it. I am on a galaxy s24, the battery life is not great compared to my last iPhone, and the camera takes poor photos, but other than that everything is better.

tech234a 2y ago

There's a 3rd-party commercial app that brings Syncthing to iOS [1]. It's essentially a paid app, but periodically they'll release TestFlight versions as betas. [1]: https://mobiussync.com/ https://mobiussync.com/ [2]: https://github.com/MobiusSync/MobiusSync/discussions/194 https://github.com/MobiusSync/MobiusSync/discussions/194

citiguy 2y ago

On IOS there's Möbius Sync, which works perfectly with Syncthing.

talldayo 2y ago

> I see that 5-6 years later they still don't. Sad, given the iPhone has a majority market share in the US (60%). What goes around, comes around. Apple knows they make it hard on developers that want to make the iPhone behave like a normal computer. Same as any Apple platform, you pay the price premium for compatible software and not the other way around. Magic solutions don't manifest on developer-hostile platforms like that, and Apple makes sure of it. After all, they profit off every solution sold on their problem marketplace. > there's no way to set up an iPhone without it immediately trying to sync everything to iCloud, like say, your iMessage encryption keys... So much for "greater privacy" then, huh? Or... do we still think this is a negligible fact?

NotPractical 2y ago

You probably should've switched to GrapheneOS instead.