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Time Machine is not Photos
A Mac backup is a good citizen and a bad camera roll.
It does not run on the iPhone in your pocket.
The pocket is where the photos are born.
That is the gap.
Time Machine is not Photos sits inside a simple product: original-quality iPhone backup, quiet on Wi‑Fi, a restore that brings the dates back. Not a feed. Not a compressed cousin.
You set it up once in the iPhone app. New photos leave when the phone is calm. If the handset dies, you sign in on the next one. That is the whole job.
Two sizes. Same engine. $12 a year for 100 GB, $20 a year for 1 TB. Coupons, if you have one, are entered in the app at checkout.
Paid in the iPhone app. $12 / year for 100 GB, or $20 / year for 1 TB.