Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by jrullman » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:30 PM UTC

Part of the Data Transfer Project? https://datatransferproject.dev/

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by coralreef » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:30 PM UTC

ncann wrote: post #5

A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon, but it's still miles better than iCloud Photos in almost everything. From search, to timeline overview, to seamless integration with my Chromecast, to automatic face tagging, to editing.

Not concerned with handing all that data to Google?

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by 1f60c » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

msh wrote: post #3

Then we are only missing google providing the same service! (I know of google takeout, which is great but not the same as this)

Yup. For those of us with slow WiFi, Google Takeout is basically unusable.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by izacus » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

LegitShady wrote: post #8

I migrated away from Google Cloud storage this year given their announcement. The Microsoft office 365 family deal made at more sense. I can't see myself using Google cloud storage in the future given the premium they're charging. Moving the data wasn't that hard.

"Premium" being 2.5$ a month for 200GB of storage space?

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by Alupis » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

ncann wrote: post #5

A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon, but it's still miles better than iCloud Photos in almost everything. From search, to timeline overview, to seamless integration with my Chromecast, to automatic face tagging, to editing.

> A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon

Google has always charged for storage in Google Photos - it's part of your "Google Drive" storage quota. They do give you 10GB free though, which can be substantial for a lot of folks.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by lorec0re » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

coralreef wrote: post #12

ncann wrote: post #5

A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon, but it's still miles better than iCloud Photos in almost everything. From search, to timeline overview, to seamless integration with my Chromecast, to automatic face tagging, to editing.

Not concerned with handing all that data to Google?

no

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by Alupis » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #14

LegitShady wrote: post #8

I migrated away from Google Cloud storage this year given their announcement. The Microsoft office 365 family deal made at more sense. I can't see myself using Google cloud storage in the future given the premium they're charging. Moving the data wasn't that hard.

"Premium" being 2.5$ a month for 200GB of storage space?

Well, in fairness, Microsoft's Office365 subscriptions conveniently include 1TB of OneDrive storage. So, if you already need the other Microsoft Office apps, and are already going to pay for them, you essentially get 1TB of cloud storage "for free".

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by prlin » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

Alupis wrote: post #15

ncann wrote: post #5

A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon, but it's still miles better than iCloud Photos in almost everything. From search, to timeline overview, to seamless integration with my Chromecast, to automatic face tagging, to editing.

> A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon Google has always charged for storage in Google Photos - it's part of your "Google Drive" storage quota. They do give you 10GB free though, which can be substantial for a lot of folks.

There was a free tier of photos and videos under a certain resolution which didn't count towards your storage which they're removing.

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by smoldesu » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

cube2222 wrote: post #4

Is there similar functionality for the other way around? So basically a simple migration from Google Photos to iCloud?

This should be what you're looking for: https://takeout.google.com

Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by bracketslash » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

Alupis wrote: post #15

ncann wrote: post #5

A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon, but it's still miles better than iCloud Photos in almost everything. From search, to timeline overview, to seamless integration with my Chromecast, to automatic face tagging, to editing.

> A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon Google has always charged for storage in Google Photos - it's part of your "Google Drive" storage quota. They do give you 10GB free though, which can be substantial for a lot of folks.

They have also always had unlimited uploads for free at lower quality.