Haha, well look at that. Searching in Swedish actually does work! I've never even thought of trying that. Nice!
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Better options out there, even a physical backup is faster and more secure compared to “trusting” Google.
They already do. Sign in at https://privacy.apple.com and click "Request a copy of your data".
I’m not usually one to beat the long-dead Google privacy horse, but you’ve got to admit that it seems pretty creepy in your particular example. A system that’s smart enough to peer through videos and identify 2D renditions of objects on shirts is pretty spooky. I wasn’t aware Google had advanced their image recognition so much. It could paint a remarkably accurate portrait of the user.
One thing I REALLY like about Google.... is their search features. If I know what's in a photo, I can usually describe it to Google Photos and it will find it. iCloud - I can kind of do the same as long as I know the date / location.
But agreed, I don't trust Google and I wouldn't recommend using it.
Apple does not get your Google credentials. You don't need to worry about that.
Now, if this was reversed, all hell would break loose
.. "No question, google gets our credentials etc..." ...
but Apple? Tokens only.
They were one of the firsts that really nailed the facial recognition part. It was spooky good. Now? You can search for things like: Hard drive, bird, yellow glass, or something really small in the photo and it will find it. It's really good.
No, iDevices "offload" content that you haven't accessed in a while, if you've enabled iCloud Photos. Not every photo is on your device, even if you can access them. They are pulled from the Cloud (iCloud) when needed.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I understand that this is an issue of no one else building a client application that can beautifully display the files, and not an issue of Apple purposely making it harder to leave.
I just wanted to vent that I’m bummed about that being the state of affairs, even though it’s not really anyone’s fault.
Really? I've had my photos in the Cloud for long time now. Started out with Flickr, then Dropbox, then Google Photos, and now iCloud Photos for years now. I couldn't imagine NOT having it in the cloud. Taking a screenshot/photo on any of my devices then POOF having it instantly available on every device ... I'm spoiled. Love iCloud Photos. I've got about 116GB of photos.
It's probably something that they can demonstrate in possible future antitrust hearings, that they don't hold your content hostage to their platform - they provide transition tools.
Huh?
Google has an authentication service to allow third party apps to do this sort of stuff. So does Apple. This isn’t unusual.
iphone dies, they buy an android phone instead.
Most folks out in the real world either don't know or don't care.
To have this AI/ML built into Photos.app or even Finder that is on device would be optimal. iCloud needs a lot of work.
not saying you can't, I simply prefer to have direct control. My photos are in LR Classic, I can literally go through thousands of them in a matter of seconds ... But, we all have different needs and best of all, we have choices
To say there was no loss of data would be an understatement. None of my albums transferred and the way Google Photos does editing, I had like 3-4 copies of MOST of my photos. Took me a year to remove all those copies and choose which ones I wanted to keep. Also, I did this more than 2+ years ago ... so, it may be very different than how it is now. <shrug>
That said, most of the individual photo data stayed (location data, etc):