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Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Post by owaislone »

sdfjkl wrote: post #299

My photos are on my drive in a bunch of messy folders and I can transfer them wherever I want. Get your filthy clouds off my lawn.

I so want to go back to this but after losing two of my 2 TB drives got corrupted in the past 15 years and now I'm scared of leaving everything on a drive. Perhaps a cheap S3 deep archive storage + a physical drive as main storage is the answer but then I won't have an app like Google Photos which is actually pretty great especially for sharing with family.

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Post by donatzsky »

owaislone wrote: post #300

Unrelated but does anyone know if the partner sharing photos in Google Photos costs double the storage? I know I can view my partners photos in the app but there is a "save" feature which allows me to save my partners photos to my own "galley". Does that mean the photo counts towards my Google One storage twice? I think it doesn't but I'm not sure.

Pretty sure it only counts if you save them to your own library. Also, if you don't save them before turning off partner sharing, they'll disappear.

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Post by yreg »

kekub wrote: post #262
megablast wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I can’t still plug my vga monitor into my iPhone.

Actually you can - there is an adapter [1] for that. [1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD825AM/A/lightning-to-vg...

What a time to be alive!

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Post by smasher164 »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #305

Truth is I don't want anything to be uploaded to Google, Apple or any other cloud. I want everything to go straight to my own server!

If iOS supported Time Machine backups, my NAS backup solution would be complete. It's crazy that we're either locked into iCloud or have to sync with iTunes.

Yes, I know about iTunes Wifi backup, but I'd rather not be on my home network for this.

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Post by punnerud »

flipbrad wrote: post #221
BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #122

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The GDPR (or some similar requirement) only appears to apply to a subset of the chosen countries.

Note that the GDPR applies to businesses established in Europe, effectively regardless of the location or nationality of users. For instance, the UK authority recognised a US resident's right to invoke GDPR, during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

It also apply to every data owned by a citizen living in EU (EU != Europe), regardless of the country the company is located.

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Post by zerkten »

mbreese wrote: post #234
varispeed wrote: post #209

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It is covered by right to data portability included in GDPR passed in 2018. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

Doesn’t that say that Apple has to give you access to your photos in a format where you could then upload the photos/videos to Google? It doesn’t say that Apple has to perform the transfer for you. That’s the novelty here — Apple handling the transfer on their side without any user intervention. Given the country list, this is being done to likely get ahead of some kind of regulation, but I don’t think this is necess…

It wouldn't be under that specific clause, but GDPR gets attached to many situations because people don't have a clear understanding of what it is and the limitations. If you work for a global company you'll find GDPR attached all kinds of customer requests to get extra traction.
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