I don't understand how this can possibly work within the constraints of iOS, and I've done some digging in the code.
Anyone else find where they are doing anything iOS specific to enable background uploads when you don't ever open the app? Apple go to great lengths to make sure the user has to use the app before it allows "budget" for background processes to execute within.
My guess is that as part of the Ente team, you open the app semi regularly, which is enough for the device to give some budget for your cloud sync process to kick off in the background every now and then.
For me, I would set Ente up and forget it. But I'm 99% sure in that case it would simply stop syncing after a few days.
> Anyone else find where they are doing anything iOS specific to enable background uploads when you don't ever open the app?
Search for "SyncService.instance.sync" in the code, that's what gets triggered.
The trigger is us sending periodic silent pushes to wake up the app.
> My guess is that as part of the Ente team, you open the app semi regularly, which is enough for the device to give some budget for your cloud sync process to kick off in the background every now and then.
I know what you think, but that's really not the case :) Many our customers are on iOS, they're satisfied with it. There are areas to improve yes - the initial import is the major pain, esp because it is also the customer's first interaction with the app - but the background sync itself is works seamlessly in practice.
Anyone else find where they are doing anything iOS specific to enable background uploads when you don't ever open the app? Apple go to great lengths to make sure the user has to use the app before it allows "budget" for background processes to execute within.
My guess is that as part of the Ente team, you open the app semi regularly, which is enough for the device to give some budget for your cloud sync process to kick off in the background every now and then.
For me, I would set Ente up and forget it. But I'm 99% sure in that case it would simply stop syncing after a few days.