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Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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

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Post by dartharva »

Unrelated, but this reminds me of a recent incident. A friend came over to me asking for help transferring his WhatsApp chats from his old iPhone to his new Android phone. Turns out there is no official/practical way to do that, and he lost all hos chat and media records made across years (WhatsApp is the main mode of communication here, it's like opening up your official mail inbox one day and finding it completely empty).

He said he had lost them earlier as well, when he had migrated to an iPhone from an Android.

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

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Post by wlesieutre »

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…

The actual transfer page also says "Choose where you’d like to transfer your photos:" and has a dropdown titled "Select destination"

There's nothing but Google Photos to choose from now, but the intent is definitely to support other services.

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

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Post by jakemal »

jonas21 wrote: post #26
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.

Yes, only a billion people in the wealthiest countries in the world who are most likely to own an Apple device.

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

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Post by miles »

reaperducer wrote: post #21
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…

> 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

When downloading directly from iCloud.com that's true (and annoying), but you can also bulk download all of the originals via Photos.app (making sure to check "Download Originals to this Mac" rather than "Optimize Mac Storage").

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

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Post by slaymaker1907 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #25
smoldesu wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But what about the privacy, the PRIVACY! /s

I'm 100% sure that's the excuse they will give, but I don't think this is a huge problem as long as there is a big scary box about what allowing an app to use Takeout means (a scarier box than just normal permissions, probably lots of red and exclamation points).

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

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Post by dangwu »

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's the first part of the Data Transfer Project - an initiative between major online service providers to provide an easy way to transfer data between their services.

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

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Post by minikites »

Why would I transfer my photos into Google Photos, a service that Google will probably shut down in a year, once it has outlived its purpose of training their machine learning models? The only reason Gmail is still around is because of how valuable that data is for advertisers. Google can't run ads on your family photos so as soon as they have enough photos for their machine learning algorithms, they'll shut down the service. I can't imagine the thought process of someone who thinks it would be a good idea to migrate all of your personal photos to a service run by an advertising company.

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

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Post by sodality2 »

ShamelessC wrote: post #30
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.

Mine is 350+. I dumped it on a HDD and forgot about it, came back the next day and it wasn't done. For some reason I was being throttled, I restarted the download and it was fast again. They sure do have a lot of data on me :(

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

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Post by XCSme »

dartharva wrote: post #31

Unrelated, but this reminds me of a recent incident. A friend came over to me asking for help transferring his WhatsApp chats from his old iPhone to his new Android phone. Turns out there is no official/practical way to do that, and he lost all hos chat and media records made across years (WhatsApp is the main mode of communication here, it's like opening up your official mail inbox one day and finding it completely…

I also lost all my WhatsApp history and data when I added WhatsApp to a new phone. Weird that it can only be active on one device.
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