Comment by shantara
19 hours ago
Immich iOS app supports backing up photos directly from iCloud in original resolution, with the all EXIF data included. I had 230 GB of photos myself, and I left the phone on the charger overnight with the app running in the foreground and screen locking disabled. In the morning everything was imported.
Some people have instead set Photos app on a Mac to download original photos from the iCloud library and then moved the files directly into the server. I have not personally tried this method though.
> Immich iOS app supports backing up photos directly from iCloud in original resolution
wait that is just crazy!!! Dang my dad is going to flip out when I tell him about this. He's got like 1.5 TB of photos in iCloud and has been searching for a way to get them off. And we're so close to our family storage limit that he gets mad at me when I text him pictures hahaha