This is great I wish they’d give an option to just download all your photos as a zip file.
Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
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#42I was surprised that Google's iOS app ignores iOS Photos' albums and favorites, and is practically the only app on my phone that doesn't allow me to share a picture into it from the camera/photos app. I went ahead and wrote my own app that provides the share extension and hooks up to the Google Photos API, but even with that I can't write photos to albums that weren't created by my app. It seems like Google _really_…
The Google Photos iOS app just uploads all photos that my iPhone takes automatically, regardless of album. Yours doesn't?
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#43Unrelated, 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…
That's actually kind of insane. Seamless transfer would take quite a high priority on the scale of things to implement, one would (and will) imagine.
Transferring from and iPhone to an iPhone is so well-done that it actually adds to the pleasure of having a new phone.
This sounds like something a fanboy would say, but honestly it's just a really rather objective comparison of the functionality.
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#44A 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.
Anecdotal annoyance with automatic face tagging: Old dog and new dog look very similar. Google keeps tagging my new dog as if he were my old dog and I haven't found a way to fix that without manually going through every single picture and untagging/retagging.
I'm just amazed these services have face tagging for dogs, and that you consider it so obvious that you feel like complaining about it.
Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
#45Unrelated, 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…
It's because Whatsapp backs up to Google Drive and iCloud respectively. I have no idea why the backup format can't be agnostic of what it's backed up on. That would make the syncing logic agnostic as well.
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#46A 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.
Anecdotal annoyance with automatic face tagging: Old dog and new dog look very similar. Google keeps tagging my new dog as if he were my old dog and I haven't found a way to fix that without manually going through every single picture and untagging/retagging.
You can manually go and say "this is my new dog" to improve the tagging.
Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
#47A 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.
Photos.app search has drastically improved ever since it started to use AI. I believe it was a search for "paper" that I did not too long ago, and which came up with several photos that were practically where-is-waldo games for me trying to find the paper.
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#48For 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.
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#49Seems to be a move in the right direction to be compliant with GDPR.
Article 20 [1] gives me the right to have my personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another controller (where technically feasible).
We should be seeing this kind of feature available in all services targeted at European citizens.
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Anecdotal annoyance with automatic face tagging: Old dog and new dog look very similar. Google keeps tagging my new dog as if he were my old dog and I haven't found a way to fix that without manually going through every single picture and untagging/retagging.
I'm just amazed these services have face tagging for dogs , and that you consider it so obvious that you feel like complaining about it.
If it's broken, then it's broken. It doesn't matter how futuristic and awesome it is.