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Comment by 05

9 days ago

You tell me how to automatically sync photos across iOS+mac devices using non-Apple services. I'll wait. (hint: it's a monopoly, you can't use other services). Yeah, I know you can do a manual backup to e.g. Google Photos. It's not the same as seamless bidirectional sync.

OneDrive supports automatic syncing of photos from iOS to the Mac.

  • Will it actually do it in the background on iOS though? It's been years since I had an iPhone, but basically you had to keep the phone awake to keep the sync moving for any application that wasn't Apple's.

  • Provided it…actually works, which shouldn’t be a high bar, but it’s one drive we’re talking about here.

    And provided it doesn’t lose your stuff. Again, should be a core competency, but it has a track record of messing that up.

    And arguably here, you’re trading one giant for a net-worse one?

Dropbox works also. It would be cool if one could do it via usb like other phones before.