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No one seems to know about it, but there is now a 3rd party app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B6bius-sync/id1539203216

The developer made it with a little help from the syncthing team. There are comments there: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/mobius-sync-ios-client-now-in-...

I've been using it for some months, and it works fine, when it works. I sometimes have to start it manually because iOS killed it in the background.

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Can you sync automatically photos/videos taken from the camera? That's my #1 for Syncthing on Android

I'm just trying it out and it seems not, iOS doesn't expose the photos folder to the app.

My workaround for this has been to install iCloud on a Windows machine which then downloads all the photos from my phone, and Syncthing on Windows monitors the iCloud folder and shares it with a Linux machine that does my backups. A bit convoluted but it works.

You can probably use icloudpd [1] to consolidate that on just a Linux machine, as I'm (more or less) doing now. I'm saying more or less because we ran out of iCloud space, I still don't want to delte forever old photos from iCloud but I should probably do it.

[1] https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

Thanks, looks like I've already starred this project on github, but I can't remember why I'm not using it... I think maybe the auth token expires every few weeks and you need some manual intervention to get it working again.

That's true but it can notify you when it's failing.

Unfortunately I don't think so. Apple walls off those photos very effectively. I gave up trying to sync those, and instead use an app called Copy That to get them off the phone and onto a SAMBA share on my network.

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