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?

  • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    19 hours ago

    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.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      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.