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📱 Nextcloud iOS App

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📱 Nextcloud iOS App

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Very interesting project, and nice landing page! Will definitely check it out. I'm a long time ownCloud/NextCloud user and I'm aware of the alternatives. With multiple android…

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embedding-shape·Dec 6, 2025

> The Nextcloud iOS app does it. Searching for "nextcloud ios background sync" shows a whole bunch of forum posts and bug reports about it not working well unless you have the application open. One issue (https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/2225) been open since 2022, seems to still be not working properly. Another (https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/2497) been open since 2023. For something that works well it seems like a ton of people have a lot of issues with it. Are you sure you're on the latest iOS version? Seems like people experience the issues when they're on a later version.

In Self-hosting my photos with Immich

xenodium·May 5, 2025

Journelly uses standard iOS file access and relies on iCloud (or third parties) to handle syncing via related infrastructure. Theoretially, any third party app that is a file provider https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider should be able available to Journelly. The reality is that reliability and provider completeness by third parties varies drastially. For example, many of them don't offer directory access to other apps (Nextcloud as an example https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/3283#issuecomment-27...), which is a show-stopper for Journelly. It needs a directory to save images. Here's a thread with some third party options some folks are using with Journelly https://framapiaf.org/@marczz/114369575100101184 Working Copy, SyncTrain, and Möbius Sync are amongst the ones I've heard working from users. For v1, I'm offici

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ally supporting iCloud (but still leaving it open for folks to try other providers). I'm just not able to do what's necessary to implement or fix what's needed in those providers (their app/codebase).

In Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text)

dns_snek·Jan 5, 2025

> Can you expand on this further? Wouldn’t this just be exposing myself to the same vulnerabilities as OP? Yeah I wouldn't do this personally, I just mentioned it as the simplest option. Unless it's meant to be a public service, I always try to at least hide it from automated scanners. > If I use nginx as a reverse proxy, would I be mitigating the risk? If the reverse proxy performs additional authentication before allowing traffic to pass onto the service it's protecting, then yes, it would. One of my more elegant solutions has been to forward a port to nginx and configure it to require TLS client certificate verification. I generated and installed a certificate on each of my devices. It's seamless for me in day to day usage, but any uninvited visitors would be denied entry by the reverse proxy. However support for client certificates is

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spotty outside of browsers, across platforms, which is unfortunate. For example HomeAssistant on Android supports it [1] (after years of pleading), but the iOS version doesn't. [2] NextCloud for iOS however supports it [3]. In summary, I think any kind of authentication added at the proxy would be great for both usability and security, but it has very spotty support. > Based on other advice, it seems like the self hosted VPN (wireguard) is the safest option, but slower. I think so. It shouldn't be slow per se, but it's probably going to affect battery life somewhat and it's annoying to find it disconnected when you try to access Immich or other services. [1] https://github.com/home-assistant/android/pull/2526 [2] https://community.home-assistant.io/t/secure-communication-c... [3] https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/pull/2908

In A story on home server security

preya2k·Sep 22, 2024

In my opinion it’s not a good alternative if you or your team members expect exactly the same quality of service. When you switch to Nextcloud you’ll have to expect more bugs, less reliability, less performance and obviously more maintenance (since it's typically self-hosted) compared to Google Drive, Dropbox or One Drive. So you'll have to go into this with a different kind of mindset. What you gain is independence, privacy and extendability due to a rather big platform ecosystem. E.g. here are some specific things and examples of things you'll have to deal with, in no specific order. These are just some things I've had to deal with recently. - You'll have to educate people in your group that there are at least 3 different ways to share files among each other and that they can all coexist in parallel (Individual Shares vs. Group Shares v

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s. Group folders vs. Circles/Teams) (I did a german blog post on this: https://bitbetter.de/blog/nextcloud-freigabe-chaos/) - Handling of file/folder names with special characters is a mess e.g. if you have Windows and Linux clients there will most certainly be conflicts. (Luckily this has been fixed recently by the `forbidden_filename_characters` config option – which is not enforced yet via the Web UI) see https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/2802 - Creating Nextcloud users with spaces in their names, will break CalDAV on iOS Devices (https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/15641) - Nextcloud (aka Collabora) Office is very slow if you want to actually work collaboratively with it (no matter the power of your Collabora server) – unfortunately it's no match for Google Docs or Office 365 Don't get me wrong: It's still a fantastic Open Source project with tons of talented people and it's a beacon of hope in the GAFA world. Everyone should try it out (and help it evolve) so it can be better than the commercial alternatives. But going into this and expecting to get the same kind of product quality like Google Drive/One Drive/Dropbox will lead to disappointment.

In Ask HN: Is Nextcloud a Great Alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive for Startups?

v-yadli·Mar 23, 2022Recommendation phrase

Very interesting project, and nice landing page! Will definitely check it out. I'm a long time ownCloud/NextCloud user and I'm aware of the alternatives. With multiple android phones come and go in the past 8 years or so, the background upload seems to stand its ground. The real problem here is iOS and its lack of proper background tasks. See: https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/215 -- they tried every possible way to persuade iOS into running background sync, but still hit and miss. I have to request access to my wife's iPhone and manually trigger some :) One small suggestion here -- PhotoPrism went with `tensorflow.js` to load up classification models, and I recommend a "real" TF or PyTorch installation to properly leverage the computation resources. The difference is huge even running cpu-only because it's wasm vs. proper BLAS libr

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ary. I worked on a nodejs binding for native ONNX runtime (not publicly) so that's also a possible way out.

In Start Self Hosting

Normal_gaussian·Oct 14, 2021

That is a somewhat combative thing to say. We see a NextCloud dev explaining that background uploads don't work herehttps://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/215 And we can see syncthing devs lamenting the many issues with an iOS client here https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102 It may be the case that file eventing now works, but a quick check with an iOS dev friend suggests that the filesystem sandboxing is too restrictive to be meaningful anyway. Further on this issue, consider that a functioning syncthing client is a node in a p2p network, so must be able to advertise and listen to requests in the background as well as the background jobs that NextCloud requires (as NextCloud is centralised it doesn't need node level co-ordination) - so a partially working NextCloud client is good enough, but a partially working Syncthing c

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lient is woefully broken.

In Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

saagarjha·Mar 27, 2020

> https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/blob/master/COPYING.iOS I tend to think of this as reaction to GPL FUD; I know some people who have these so they never have to actually figure out the answer to this question. > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12827624 I have argued that a close reading of the TOS currently seems to allow GPL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21943994 > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store... Again, this is super old. Do you have anything newer?

In Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible

heavyset_go·Mar 26, 2020

> I believe that the current terms leave the App Store open to GPL software Please read the following: https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/blob/master/COPYING.iOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12827624 https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store... > Also, Apple will only remove software if you notify them of copyright infringement; it's not their job to preemptively perform licensing enforcement. Developers of GPL software have had different experiences with Apple than what you're asserting. There is a direct incentive for Apple to police licensing incompatibilities if they are profiting from illegal distribution of GPL software on their platform.

In Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible