New Nextcloud IOS App Background uploading not working

šŸ“± Desktop & mobile clients šŸ iOS
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It is incredible that the iOS app cannot do background sync of my photos and videos, this make the app basically useless. What a shame for Nextcloud!

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As far as I know it is not an issue in the responsibility of Nextcloud but Apple. As far as I understood Apple has restricted background execution tasks and only allows a limited number of apps to be executed. So I recommend to address your complain to Apple :wink:

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It is only a partial limitation from Apple which the developers of the Nextcloud app do not want to manage with the help of the Apple support.
In fact Google Photo and Amazon Photo works absolutely fine and both of them can do pictures upload in background wihout any issue, on any iOS device.
Thatā€™s a pity because I would have paid for an app developed by Nextcloud with this feature, but their developers seems not interested to put any effort on this foundamental featureā€¦

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45

I have the same issue.
I would love an app, and pay for an app, that would have this feature.
Im building a clooud for my family, and I dont know if they will use it even, if it does not background auto-sync photos. Kind of defeats the point in my use case.
Hope it will be fixed.

Edit:
If you download TestFlight and get the latest beta of the NextCloud app 4.9.2 the issue is fixed.

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46

Same issue here, it persists, makes the app meaningless if it canā€™t do background sync which i think was the main usecase for it ā€¦ to get away from likes of google cloud and apple icloud

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47

Afaik this is a limitation which Apple has set to prevent unnecessary draining of the battery by background job execution, so you should reach-out to Apple and ask them to remove that hurdle from their OS :wink:

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48

Google Photos and Dropbox and a meriad of other s work properly why is it only a problem with Nextcloud ?

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49

It is Feb, 2024 now, the problem still existā€¦God, damn it.

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50

SAME ISSUE. It works great on Android and I wish I didnā€™t need this dumb iphone for work. Can someone please fix this, please

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51

I was experiencing problems with locked file error etc. Now Iā€™m also facing this issue. What a shame :frowning:

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The problem persists. Itā€™s a shame that itā€™s not possible to find a solution with Apple that would allow NextCloud to function properly like other cloud services. I guess Iā€™ll have to decide with my next purchase: either Apple without NextCloud or NextCloud without Apple.

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December 18, 2024: STILL AN ISSUE

The persistent claim that this problem stems solely from Appleā€™s restrictions is unconvincing. Implementing a feature that doesnā€™t function as intended is counterproductive; if itā€™s not feasible, it should be reconsidered or removed. Offering a product with non-functional features is unacceptable, and the lack of communication from the development team only exacerbates user frustration.

Itā€™s worth noting that other applications, such as Google Photos and Amazon Photos, have managed to implement background uploading effectively on iOS devices.