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You don't need the cloud: syncthing can sync your phone and your computer together without any issues. No nasty cloud provider involved: https://syncthing.net/

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And because no one except Apple have access to the private iOS APIs required to run background processes forever, you would have to remember to keep the app in the foreground while it completes syncing on a regular basis.

Also, you can restore an iPhone from what SyncThing can back up. Only an iTunes or equivalent iCloud device backup can. They also can’t back up things like MFA keys / seeds / IVs.

I’m glad ST exists and it’s useful for syncing photos for home use, but it is not a viable iCloud alternative, nor could one be made due to the private iOS API issue.

You can even sync to $nasty_cloud_provider and don't provide the syncthing password. Problem solved!

What? Syncthing is not a backup program, it, as the name suggests, syncs folders and files. There is no password involved.

Syncthing now supports untrusted device sync[0] (i.e. storing an encrypted copy on an untrusted device) in a recent version, though this is still on beta.

[0]: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html

Check out: https://docs.syncthing.net/branch/untrusted/html/users/untru...

Looks like Syncthing doesn’t have support/client for iOS though?

There may be 3rd party apps like https://www.mobiussync.com

For some reason it’s not available in France. Is it limited to the US?

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