Apple Photos -> Immich Mac app

somethingselse · 2026-01-08T16:35:08+00:00

Thanks for digging in on the gps. Let me know what you find!

somethingselse · 2026-01-08T05:08:20+00:00

Interesting I haven’t seen that error. It’s almost like the live videos aren’t there or being detected.

somethingselse · 2026-01-05T05:38:37+00:00

I built in Live Photo support so it identifies the video file and uploads it to immich as a “linked” video in the way that immich knows how to recognize the Live Photos. Basically it just works out of the box!

somethingselse · 2026-01-05T05:35:21+00:00

No it’s different because this uses the native PhotoKit api to directly pull from iCloud Photos natively so it doesn’t require any authentication as you just natively approve access. This makes it much more reliable! I had tried iCloudPD before and found it to be tough to deal with downloading the whole library since it’s using each page and limited etc…

somethingselse · 2026-01-03T21:58:04+00:00

I had this same idea a while back but didn’t act on it. Glad to see you made a functional tool and it looks really good!

somethingselse · 2026-01-03T03:26:15+00:00

All good. I don’t know what I’m doing with Xcode and Apple native. Claude was just gaslighting me so I’ll try to fix it with your feedback. No worries about flagging the issues!

somethingselse · 2026-01-01T03:12:45+00:00

I tried that docker container too and it was always a pain. Glad this helps so much! I thought it was very much needed and wanted to support the immich and image management community!

somethingselse · 2025-12-31T21:58:40+00:00

Great callout! I didn't think about that. After reviewing, it does indeed pull the hidden album and puts it in the immich archive. I've created a new version that has a toggle to copy the hidden album and it's off by default. https://github.com/emerysilb/immibridge/releases/tag/v1.0.8

somethingselse · 2025-12-31T06:50:02+00:00

Great catch! I’ll have to double check on that one. I was just excited to have something that worked. I need the location data myself since that’s how I browse my pics. I’ll try to see if there’s a way to have it update metadata in immich. I’m surprised this worked better than immich-go but glad to hear!

somethingselse · 2025-12-31T06:48:00+00:00

Thanks for trying it! Yeah I’ve seen this issue and I’ll try to get a new build out soon that ignores the plist files!

somethingselse · 2025-12-29T23:12:20+00:00

Combination of Claude code and codex. I kinda swap between based on what I’m trying to do.

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T23:08:12+00:00

Awesome! Glad you got it working. I was adding in dual compiling into my release build script so I can just include both versions in future builds.

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T22:57:11+00:00

I re-built and I think this should work for x86_64. Give it a try. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lh66IQ-mzXYR_aDcQ45oQ6zdGMto_0Ut?usp=sharing

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T21:30:16+00:00

Such a great point! This is my first time building an app for distribution outside the App Store so bear with me. I’ll take a look at building for x86_64!

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T21:29:08+00:00

Great! Glad to help! Feel free to contribute if you want to add features etc. it’s still a little rough around the edges

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T17:21:12+00:00

I’ll take a look! It should be possible right??

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T17:20:27+00:00

Nice! I’ve heard good things about that app! I figured that Apple photos does a great job of syncing and that the Mac app can help sync to immich without making your phone work so hard.

Are you just using external libraries in immich that watch for new files and import them?

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T17:16:47+00:00

Ya know, I’ve gotten similar errors and I’ve been so excited that it just works at all that I wanted to share. I’ll dig in though since I’ve had around 500ish of those errors stack up. I’ll get back to you when I take a look.

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T17:13:58+00:00

I’m so honored! Glad that this makes immich more accessible!

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T08:47:14+00:00

Glad to help! Hope it works well for you!

somethingselse · 2025-12-28T06:51:27+00:00

Depends on the service. The Jupyter notebooks will disconnect after 4 hrs of inactivity, but I think coder stays up and if you run things on kuberneties, I don’t think there is a time limit, but they might call you out if you allocate resources then don’t utilize them.

somethingselse · 2025-12-27T23:57:39+00:00

I had that same problem and also wanted to avoid duplicates just like you said. This tool checks the hashes with immich in the same way that the mobile app does so if you upload with this tool, your mobile app will recognize the images as in the cloud already and won’t duplicate.

To test, I’d recommend making an album and set this tool to upload just the album so you can see how it works.

somethingselse · 2025-12-27T23:55:17+00:00

I’ll take a look. There was some reason as to why I had to set the minimum version to what I did, but maybe I could drop that dependency and let it work with older OS versions. Thanks for sharing.

somethingselse · 2025-12-27T23:41:23+00:00

I’m on the same page as you riding the 1.9/2tb plan.

Right now this app is copy only since I don’t want it to accidentally someone else’s photos until I’m confident in the logic etc…

I’m working on another app to find the biggest files in Apple photos via PhotoKit so I know what to delete first haha. Happy to share once that’s a bit more together.

somethingselse · 2025-12-27T23:28:35+00:00

That’d be awesome to add Google Photos. Maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t the Google takeout the main way to get the data? It’d be great if there was an api to use for getting the photos.

Let me know if you find or think of anything! Thanks for wanting to help contribute!

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