How Your Google Photos Can Now Be Easily Moved to iCloud
How Your Google Photos Can Now Be Easily Moved to iCloud
With an official tool created by Google, you may now move Google Photos files to your iCloud account. It’s time to move everything over to iCloud if you’re paying for a Google One subscription only to maintain an outdated Google Photos account on life support.
Tucked down in the “Data & privacy” area of your Google account settings is the transfer tool, Google Takeout. It’s quite simple to use: open Google Takeout, choose “iCloud Photos” as your transfer destination, sign in using your Apple ID, and connect into the Google account linked to your Google Photos setup. Transferring via Google Takeout happens automatically once the transfer process has been initiated, but it can take a few hours (or days).
In 2021, a similar solution was released that syncs photos from iCloud to Google Photos. Though it’s better late than never, I’m not sure why it took three years to develop the new Google Photos to iCloud transfer tool.
Videos and images that you have transferred are kept in your Google Photos or iCloud storage. Both sites will attempt to organize images into any albums you’ve already made, although certain albums might not be carried over during the transfer. They will also preserve the metadata of transferred files (location data, timestamps, etc.).
Make sure your account has adequate storage to hold all of the photos and videos you’re moving over to Google Photos before you start the transfer. Otherwise, when the transfer is resumed, you can have duplicate files. (Apple and Google’s documentation varies on this point; although Google claims duplicates won’t occur, Apple maintains they won’t. I advise being cautious.)
It should be noted that photo or video transfer is unaffected by the amount of storage on your computer or phone. During this process, iCloud and Google Photos exchange data with one another via the cloud.
You can find more details, including the supported file types, in the file transfer instructions provided by Google or Apple
