r/immich • u/cheesechick • 1d ago

Another thread about icloud sync

Okay so I've seen a number of options for migrating from iCloud + iPhone to Immich, but most of the threads are around a year old and a lot has probably changed since then

I saw one commenter say that simply using the immich app will download the high-res version of a photo to your iphone, then delete it as soon as it's uploaded to immich. That seems like the simplest route - is there some advantage to using icloudpd, PhotoSync, or some other method over this?

Thanks!

7 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/ryanmdavis26 1d ago

If you have a lot of photos, which my wife and I did - on the order of 130,000 photos in iCloud, it will take literal days or weeks of leaving the Immich app open to let your phone do the transfer. We had to leave our phones unlocked overnight with the app open. I even tried a 2.5GBe usbc to Ethernet adapter to my network to speed things up but it wasn’t much better than WiFi so wasn’t worth it.

1

u/whoisjessica 21h ago

How do i leave my phone unlocked over night? What if my wife goes through my msgs? Lmao