This is great timing, I'm just setting up a homelab and planning to run Immich on a mini PC server connected to a NAS. I did find icloudpd, which seems like a pretty reliable syncing tool for people in Apple ecosystem. https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

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para_parolu 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I just sync from my mac and iphone to immich. Works well

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palata 6 hours ago | parent [-]

On iOS, does it keep syncing if you "swipe away" the app and never open it for e.g. a couple months?

I really would like something like this.

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volemo 5 hours ago | parent [-]

As far as I understand iOS’s behaviour, there’s no way to do what you’re asking unless you’re Apple Inc.

	▲	palata 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The Nextcloud app kind of does it, it seems. The fact that it stops working seems unrelated: starting the app doesn't make it recover, so it just seems buggy. Nextcloud uses the location permission for some reason, presumably to wake up the app in the background once in a while? At least it can be closed (and "swiped away") for 2 months and keep syncing. Until it breaks and stops working entirely.