For Android I’ve used SyncThing for ages. Any way to break out of the Apple ecosystem for photo syncing?

  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgOP
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    2 months ago

    Server setup is no problem as I would host it for them. If I understand you correctly I would need to tell them to open the app every so often for the sync to work. Hm, not exactly an ideal solution, but I guess it’s an acceptable compromise.
    I assume this is a hard limit iOS-wise, so all third-party syncing apps will have to deal with this somehow? There probably isn’t a way to selfhost an iCloud server somehow, is there?

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      2 months ago

      so all third-party syncing apps will have to deal with this somehow?

      My understanding is that the process killing applies to everything that is not directly tied to the Apple ecosystem, so probably. So far I haven’t found a way around it.

      There probably isn’t a way to selfhost an iCloud server somehow, is there?

      That would be nice, but this IS Apple we are talking about here. As far as I know that isn’t even an option for the US Government.