Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
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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
#2This 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 Google Photos are currently available together? But I don't get that either.
Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
#3Then we are only missing google providing the same service!
(I know of google takeout, which is great but not the same as this)
Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
#4Is there similar functionality for the other way around?
So basically a simple migration from Google Photos to iCloud?
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#5A 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.
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#6Doesn't the Google Photo app do this already without waiting? Is there a use-case for this?
Re: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
#7A 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.
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#8I migrated away from Google Cloud storage this year given their announcement. The Microsoft office 365 family deal made at more sense. I can't see myself using Google cloud storage in the future given the premium they're charging. Moving the data wasn't that hard.
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#9Doesn't the Google Photo app do this already without waiting? Is there a use-case for this?
If I understand correctly, this directly transfers data from Apple’s server to theirs.
You don’t need to even install their app.
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#10I 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_ doesn't want me to get photos into Google Photos for some reason?