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0 pointsmyaccountonhn7mo ago0 comments

I knew apple wasn't for me when I tried to sync and backup my stuff on something that wasn't iCloud. Its just plain unusable if you don't want to be fully entrenched in their cloud services.

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jama2117mo ago

I’m an iphone user and I’ve always used Dropbox and google photos as my general backup mediums.

ThatPlayer7mo ago

Isn't that photo specific backup rather than general backups? Last I tried, Dropbox on iPhone cannot backup any files owned by other apps automatically. You'd have to export it manually to Dropbox.

Edit; It looks like this is possible on iOS for apps to access other app's file sandboxes with a somewhat recent iOS update. MobiusSync (Syncthing client for iOS) has beta support for it. But I see no mention of Dropbox adding support for anything similar

jama2117mo ago

It’s true that I have some app data being stored in iCloud, but it is VERY within the free tier space limit. But depends on the app, many apps support Dropbox themselves and I store the data in Dropbox for those.

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jama2117mo ago

I’m an iphone user and I’ve always used Dropbox and google photos as my general backup mediums.

ThatPlayer7mo ago

Isn't that photo specific backup rather than general backups? Last I tried, Dropbox on iPhone cannot backup any files owned by other apps automatically. You'd have to export it manually to Dropbox.

jama2117mo ago

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