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 philposting » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

mszcz wrote: post #248

dkonofalski wrote: post #232

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You've always been "allowed" to move your photos from Apple Photos to Google Photos. The difference here is that Apple is doing it for you .

Oh. Well, my dislike for the big tech lock-in solutions is more general in nature. Thanks for clearing it up. Curious, what happens if Apple locks your account (not in their ecosystem but M1 got me apple-curious ;)? Can you still export you're data, photos?

Probably not from their online service, but unless you switch on “optimise local storage”, all of the files are already on your local disk in JPEG or HEIC.

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

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Post by Pokepokalypse » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

That's the last fucking place I want my photos.

When you run out of space, you're screwed.

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

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Post by philposting » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

pentae wrote: post #148

Would love to see this come to Apple Notes, it'd be great to be able to export just for backup purposes

There’s this nice app: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/exporter/id1099120373?mt=12

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Post by datavirtue » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:17 PM UTC

jeffbee wrote: post #115

janlaureys wrote: post #7

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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.

On the web site, go to "explore" and pick the face of either dog, it should offer a little button that says "Same or different?" that will give you an opportunity to train it.

They can train your dog?!

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

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Post by philposting » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:18 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.

I used https://www.raidrive.com/ which lets you mount Google Photos as a (read-only) drive in Windows.

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Post by thombles » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:18 PM UTC

rakoo wrote: post #144

It is a bit sad to see something as simple as "you can now take your photos and put them where you want" become a newsworthy article. This is yet another demonstration that Digital Feudalism is alive and well, and just like its ancestor, we need to get rid of it by empowering people to be their own self

There are options in the middle - e.g. in M365 Personal, camera uploads are deposited as plain old files in your OneDrive Pictures folder and the Win10 photos app is driven directly by that. I periodically take offline backups by copying my OneDrive to an external drive and sleep easy that I have all my stuff.

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Post by subpixel » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:26 PM UTC

Funny reading this while Apple re-uploads my entire 10+ year photo library _from an external drive_ back to iCloud after I fresh-installed Big Sur.

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

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Post by crazysim » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

bydo wrote: post #256

amelius wrote: post #250

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I still can't insert a USB drive into an iPad without hassle.

You can on an iPad Pro?

And on other iPads with an adapter too:

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/connect-external-devi...

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

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Post by lilyball » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

rakoo wrote: post #144

It is a bit sad to see something as simple as "you can now take your photos and put them where you want" become a newsworthy article. This is yet another demonstration that Digital Feudalism is alive and well, and just like its ancestor, we need to get rid of it by empowering people to be their own self

You could always download your entire iCloud Photos library and reupload it anywhere else you wanted, it’s just tedious. The noteworthy thing is Apple will transfer your photos to Google Photos entirely on your behalf, without you having to download a single photo.

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Post by JohnTHaller » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #250

planb wrote: post #176

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But you could always do this. Apple seems to go a step further and does this on your behalf. I think that’s newsworthy.

I still can't insert a USB drive into an iPad without hassle.

You can with a lightning USB drive or a lightning to USB adapter, but it'll only transfer at USB 2.0 speeds on most iPhones, iPads, and iPad Pros with Lightning. Some will apparently do USB3 speeds but you need the right adapter. And if you plug it into your iDevice into your computer with a lighting to USBC or A adapter, it's still just USB 2 speeds. At least as of the last time I looking into it. Apple always made it hard to figure this out. The newer USB-C ones you can transfer faster.