Once you’ve logged into quickconnect () you’ll be brought to the desktop. Install Synology Moments From The Package CenterĪssuming you’ve updated your Disk Station Manager OS, and followed the setup guide when you start your NAS you’ll have the option to setup quick connect and that’s where we’ll be installing the software (packages). So after going through way too many trial and errors with a bunch of different software here is what I’ve managed to hack together. Synology has a lot of “ads” or “promotional videos” pumping up the features of both their media software but in reality it doesn’t work the way they say it should. And as a result, when your iPhone wants to back up your photos or videos nothing happens unless you open up the app.
It seems that Apple has disabled background features that prevent apps to run in the background. iOS Won’t Let Moments Run in The Background But I think many of them are not actual iOS users and don’t realize that the automatic syncing doesn’t really work. All these YouTube video reviews and stuff mention that it can replace Google photos, iCloud, etc. If a drive fails/breaks we’d still have them saved). One of the main reasons I wanted to buy the Synology NAS was to make sure that our family photos were backed up with redundancy (ie.
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How to Automatically Sync iPhone to Synology NAS So here’s everything I learned about how to sync photos to a Synology NAS from an iPhone. And then lastly we can use the PhotoSync App but you do have to spend some money on software. Reddit shows some options by syncing iCloud with Hazel but it requires you to have Mac that is always on. But it’s not extremely user friendly – Also it seems to sometimes require you to be on the app for it to upload. DS Photos does a great job at uploading over WiFi by enabling “geofencing” (basically when you’re close to a location, it’ll wake up your phone to upload). Synology’s latest app Moments isn’t uploading in the background cause the latest iOS shuts down the app. I can’t seem to get my iPhone X to upload my photos directly to the NAS.