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”If they use services” - who is “they?”
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Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos
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I’m sorry, I can’t understand what you are saying.
”If they use services” - who is “they?”
I have this exact issue with my 128 GB 2013 Macbook Air. A long time ago, when Photos was still iPhoto, it let me keep my photo library on a network drive. This allowed me to keep a library with full sized photos backed up with Time Machine, but still accessible to my Macbook without having to attach anything. They stopped allowing that and now warn that data loss could occur if it's ever attempted, so now I have an optimized library on my Macbook and an old manual backup from iCloud from months ago.
The Google Photos app would upload whatever is on your phone, so you would need to have optimization turned off so that it would upload the full sized image.
and how does that work when you have more photos storage than your phone can hold, like 100GB on a 64GB phone? for example.
And now you suggest that you need to download full photo from icloud to your phone and then back up to google? When this app supposedly goes direct bypassing the download/upload phase....
I was just pointing out how it operates. I wasn't the one suggesting that it be used. For smaller libraries that can fit on a phone or iPad, it's probably simple enough to just install the app and let it do it's thing, assuming one already has the full size photos on the device. There's an app for the Mac also, but I've never had good results with it.
Samsung does the same thing. I’m sure if they wanted an apple they would already be using apple
Yeah i'm sure you can see why that work around is not really a viable solution for a number of reasons.
But yes, you have the setup that solves this problem, but Apple could solve it by adding ONE tick box to the photos app below the options for Full orginals, Optimised storage, they add another that reads 'Store full originals on timemachine, and optimised on laptop/internal'. But no, I have to buy a whole another apple mac instead. Gee thanks Tim!
I use and pay for both Apple photos and Google photos
I like to have them in both places just in case and also be able to use whatever features are best on each.
I like to have them in both places just in case and also be able to use whatever features are best on each.
Why don’t you try it and see?
I’d guess the Google developers wouldn’t be so utterly stupid as to do the low res upload you’re concerned with, but I’ve never used it and haven’t any interest in using it.
Google has a "Partner" sharing - my wife has access to all my photos without me having to share them manually one by one.
I haven't looked at iCloud's family sharing recently - I'll check it out again, but last I remember, I could share photos and they'd be separate from my main photo album. Google's way I really like (even though I don't use it anymore) - everything in my photo album she can access and see, even new photos, without me having to do anything.
Edit: Yeah, the iCloud Family Sharing requires me to manually select photos to share. Google's way is as if she could see my entire photo library (live) and automatically save them to hers and be notified when I take new photos.
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Most likely, for every account link setup via Apple will be receiving a payment. It’s lead generation for Google to build their Photos customer base. This happening at the same time as Google announcing reduced quality settings for unlimited Google Photos storage is no accident. Google will be looking for new Photos customers.
Nope.
That's exactly what happens, you're correct. Apple will not receive your username or password at all. Anyone who says otherwise is fear mongering and technologically illiterate.
Well, no, the best way to solve it is to not use iCloud Photos. Apple tells you right up front that it is not a backup, but people will never read and will never listen. They'll just whine when they lose everything.
As someone who routinely platform hops between iPhone and Pixel every few years (both are great products with their own pros and cons, let’s not get into that debate on this particular forum topic), this is greatly appreciated.
Moving between iCloud Photos and Google Photos manually when you have several thousand photos and videos is NOT an enjoyable process by any stretch of the imagination, no matter how many drugs you’ve taken.
Moving between iCloud Photos and Google Photos manually when you have several thousand photos and videos is NOT an enjoyable process by any stretch of the imagination, no matter how many drugs you’ve taken.
I never claimed I did, or that there were. There aren't. That's why all the idiots who talk about "backups" to iCloud/Dropbox/OneDrive/GoogleDrive/etc are *so* amusing.What service guarantee do you have with any of them... none.
I would *never* allow any of the "cloud" services to be authoritative.
I find your daily complaint rant lacking innovation too.
Does this use your google storage allowance or do the pics get uploaded "free" that doesn't use your storage?
just like you never read my post evidently. I know icloud is not a backup. That's the bloody point.
I mean sure, I could go back like it's 2006 and plug my phone into my laptop and also my ipad, and copy all the photos across and then file them using ACDSee or similar, and then do this for each family member, and setup a manual backup of the archived files in fact why don't i just shoot film and get it scanned in onto CD, there's my backup right there.... Or just use linux and forgo the 'it just works' integration supposedly offered by Tim Apple and co.
well this service takes the photos from icloud to google photos an the app takes the photos on your device to google photos.