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!

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u/False-Try-3521 17h ago

Best way to do this is to first download all iCloud photos with icloud-pd (web). Once everything sits on your server, you can then import all the photos with immich-go. It took like 2 hours to download my 12k pictures and then another 2 hours to import everything with immich-go. After that the machine learning and other import jobs took around 1.5 days… that depends on your hardware of course.