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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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[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Works just fine for me in iOS 26. Altought sometimes it doesnt do it automatically in bg and I have to open the app

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 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.

[–] hornedfiend@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 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

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

.. Interesting idea. But immich doesn't work as a drop in, the default images collection includes a lot of rubbish so for it to be useful you have to manually tag photos to include with immich

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, one of the reasons I still prefer android.

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you opening it manually? Unfortunately I need to get it working set and forget if possible. And I'm trying to avoid icloud

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why set&forget? You never open your gallery?

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's kind of necessary for family members who still need it to be backing up and may take a bit of time to get used to using it. If it's not backing up pics then it won't be useful when they do open it

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

You do have a point. I have no solution.