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

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

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #2

This article is a little weird. The title is actually "Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another service " but then the small print says "...to Google Photos." It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet? It also only allows customers from a small fraction of countries to use this, which I really don't get. Maybe those are all the places iCloud Photos and…

It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet?

Considering the fourth word of the second paragraph is "initially," I think you're correct — this is a work in progress.

I hope that Apple will eventually allow bulk downloads of iCloud photos to the desktop. Right now you can only do 1,000 at a time, and it took me almost a week to make a local backup of my wife's iCloud photos.

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

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

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #2

This article is a little weird. The title is actually "Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another service " but then the small print says "...to Google Photos." It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet? It also only allows customers from a small fraction of countries to use this, which I really don't get. Maybe those are all the places iCloud Photos and…

It'll be countries where Apple is facing anti-trust complaints.

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

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

For those of you wanting a way to get your photos out of Google, I recommend https://takeout.google.com

I used it last week to migrate my Google photos to Nextcloud, it was pretty painless.

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

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Post by asadlionpk » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:37 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?

I would love that as I have to move my family from Google to iCloud.

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

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Post by toomuchtodo » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #19

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

Takeout is table stakes for Google’s position in the market. They really need to better support 3rd parties making a Takeout request on behalf of a user, and those services then retrieving the Takeout bundle for ingestion.

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

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Post by jonas21 » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #2

This article is a little weird. The title is actually "Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another service " but then the small print says "...to Google Photos." It seems like they plan to support migrating to other services at some point but not yet? It also only allows customers from a small fraction of countries to use this, which I really don't get. Maybe those are all the places iCloud Photos and…

Yeah, just a small fraction of countries, like the United States and the European Union. I'm sure nobody cares about those places.

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

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Post by londons_explore » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

Alupis wrote: post #17

izacus wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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".

Bundling a spreadsheet app with photo storage ought to be against some competition rule... Just like Amazon has taken over so many markets with Prime...

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

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Post by jedberg » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

Is this to avoid some sort of monopoly accusation or the result of new data protection rules?

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

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Post by slaymaker1907 » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

1f60c wrote: post #13

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.

If you really want to get those files, you could try using a VM on a fast network (not sure which cloud offering would be best for this in terms of bandwidth cost).

This is not ideal at all, just suggesting a trick I've used in the past as a workaround for big downloads on an unreliable network. Obviously Google should just improve their service.

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

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Post by ShamelessC » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #23

For those of you wanting a way to get your photos out of Google, I recommend https://takeout.google.com I used it last week to migrate my Google photos to Nextcloud, it was pretty painless.

Word of caution - if you use Google Drive it will happily quickly dump as much as 200 GiB in your drive. if you don't have enough space, you get an incomplete download and five other Google services complaining you've run out of space.