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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.
People don't know. Researching good image backup/sharing options is beyond most normies. Privacy invasion isn't even a known problem for them to care about.
My parents certainly won't be able to comprehend this. My brothers are tech savvy, and it's taken years for them to come onboard with self hosting since I've started advocating it (one still can't because his wife finds it difficult to move away from Google photos).
What other option is there for automatic backups, image editing and touchups, and index and searching for photos?
This is a dupe from above btw. I just added this in an edit for clarity. I'm asking the same question of both.
I'm currently in the process of learning to set up Immich on a home server. That will take care of automatic backup and indexing and searching. My family won't engage to use this though, so they're still going to send me Google photos links for sharing.
For touchups, I do that on device with an image editing app it needed. Although I never need to edit really.
By indexing is that by fine name and meta data or does it do face and location matching like Google. I know I'm moving goalposts but that's the real killer feature IMO.
It's meant to have facial recognition, etc with a locally run AI
https://immich.app/docs/features/ml-hardware-acceleration/
Interesting I'll check it out.