g8row/PhotosBackup
PhotosBackup iOS app
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An experimental, fully on-device iPhone app for backing up selected photos, videos, and albums to Google Photos. It is a single SwiftUI app that completes Google account setup in an in-app web view, so everything happens on the phone without a desktop companion or hosted service. from Diagnostics, and stop the queue when the Google account is out of space. library assets per Google account. app would upload itself, so Google Photos' Free up space recognises it. attached, so it plays as a Live Photo and the Google Photos app's Free up space offers it. Live Photos backed up as a still earlier get their motion added in the background. backed up. Google Photos applies its own edit on top of the camera's Portrait blur or crop, and only counts the photo once the account holds that in-between version, so it is uploaded in addition to the finished edit. cancelling…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- Photos Backup for iOS
- What it can do
- Current status
- App identity (since 0.0.2)
- Reporting a problem
- Requirements
- Build and run
- Test background execution
- Build an unsigned IPA
- Install via SideStore
- Connect a Google account
- Authentication and credential handling
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PhotosBackup iOS app
Repository facts
- Owner
- g8row
- Primary language
- Swift
- Stars
- 159
- Forks
- 17
- Open issues + pull requests
- 11
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-08T10:19:37.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-10T14:53:29.000Z
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