What is your current rclone version (output from rclone version)?

v1.67

What problem are you are trying to solve?

Apple's iCloud can store both files in the iCloud Drive and photos via Apples Photos app.
A new backend for accessing the iCloud Drive is currently beeing finalized in #1778 & #7717

This issues attempts to track the development of extending the initial iCloud Drive support to photos.

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

The existing iCloud Drive backend should be extended with support for accessing photos.
@lostb1t, the author of the initial iCloud backend implementation, has outlined the planned approach in this comment:

B: single remote includes all available services mapped to their names in the root(so icloudremote:/drive, icloudremote:/photos etc)

C: B but let user choose woch services are avaiable for the remote

A and C are probably quite similar just with a config option to control. One of those sounds the easiest to implement and there is lots of precedent in rclone, eg drive/shared drives or OneDrive/SharePoint

im gonna focus on option C. This allows credentials to be defined only once and a user can choose the services from the config.

Il write an Fs interface for every service but combine them similar to combine backen to provide a single backend to rclone

So the plan would be to combine both Drive and Photos in a single backend but use two separate Fs implementations internally.

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