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Is there a way to auto backup from iPhones? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've set up a self hosted photo system with immich, and it works doing automatic backups of photos from the filesystem, eg using termux/cron, although it is a bit flakey. Immich also works for backup, but it's less ideal.

iPhone seems to be a lot harder, backup in immich doesn't work, it seems that iPhones have a complicated was of handling background tasks which make background backups very difficult.

Does anyone know a way of doing any kind of backup automatically, without plugging in a cable and without using iCloud?

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[–] 2 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

iOS devices are pretty horrible at keeping a background task going unless apple owns it. Probably why they can get great battery life, but also seems pretty anti competitive. Not even google's photo backup works well unless you manually open the app once in a while.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    They do work, but Apple has a shitty system of ranking apps based on usage for background keep alive.

    The more you open the app. the higher it'll rank in priority and background upload will work.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That is very much the problem here, I would like to set up a set-and-forget system for family members so we can collect photos together easily. But that goes against how apple systems work

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Aahhh i see, in that case, replave for them the default gallery app icon with immich; they won't notice :D

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