Something I find it missing is two way sync. Meaning if you delete a photo that has already been backed up in Immich, from the standard Photos app, it will live on in Immich. So I guess the solution is to just use Immich as your default photo manager.

If anyone knows of solutions to this I'd be curious!

I’ve disabled iCloud and use the PhotoSync app to move photos and videos from my phone to a file structure on my NAS, which Immich reads as an external library. Stable for over a year now - very happy with it.

I’ve done just that, it works.

Searching does need some omph though, I will have to move it away from my poor little NAS at some point.

I do that, I just enabled backups in the Immich app and there it goes.