Comment by samatman
2 years ago
The original comment was about exporting photos, and how "Apple makes it difficult". Which they do not.
Syncing is a different story, let's see how this holds up:
If you want to sync your iPhone's photos to Dropbox, you give Dropbox permission to access the Photos library and it syncs. https://www.multcloud.com/tutorials/sync-iphone-photos-to-dr...
The company hosting that URL offers a product for syncing between various clouds, I haven't used it but it does exist. https://www.multcloud.com/download
So I guess this is another one of those things that just isn't true. Go figure.
Exporting in real time is the expectation, anything else is subpar.
Not really. For Dropbox, Nextcloud, Photo Sync, et c to upload your photos, the app needs to remain open; it can't upload in the background for more than a minute or so.
This means that only iCloud can do real background syncing. If you want to upload a full camera roll to a non-iCloud service, you're in for a world of frustration. You'll have to disable screenlock and put the phone on a power cord and leave it open with the app up for hours and hours. Of course iCloud doesn't have such limitations.
No non-Apple app is allowed to do background sync, no matter what you install. They have put iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos in a privileged position.
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Try connecting it to a new, empty Dropbox account with a photo roll with 20+ GB in it. You’ll see what I say is true.