Easily Switch From Google Photos to iCloud Photos With This New Tool

[MacRumors]

Google today released a tool that allows you to transfer photos and videos from Google Photos to iCloud Photos, complete with albums and descriptions.

Apple released an equivalent tool for moving from iCloud Photos to Google Photos three years ago, so this was a reciprocal move by Google. The companies released the tools as part of the Data Transfer Initiative, which is focused on ensuring that customers can download their data from one online service and upload it to another.

Google's tool merely creates a copy of your photos and videos for another service. The original photos and videos will remain in your Google Photos account following the transfer process, unless they are manually deleted afterwards.

More details can be found in the Google and Apple support documents for each tool, and on the Data Transfer Initiative blog.

Article Link: Easily Switch From Google Photos to iCloud Photos With This New Tool

 

[ghanwani]

Easily switch from one bad option to another!

The best photo site was Flickr back in the day.

 

[coffeemilktea]

And here I've been downloading photos from Google Photos and importing them manually into Apple's Photos app like some kind of savage. 😩

 

[jntdroid]

I started using Google Photos before I went all in on iOS about 10 years ago, so I have 80% of my favorite photos/videos in both places already as Google Photos backs up my iPhone photos/vids.

I'd like to get a copy over to my main Microsoft account as well - the 1 TB for cheap there is nice. Then I'll be fully covered while also being fully surveilled...

 

[Bsj80]

Can’t select Apple to move to… only Flickr, Microsoft OneDrive, and SmugMug….

Update: icloud is listed as “coming soon”.

 

[miric]

Easily switch from one bad option to another!

The best photo site was Flickr back in the day.

It's not about sites, it's about organizing photos on your phone first.

Flickr used to be but I have a doubt. That group posting/comment spam barely allows searching by a particular camera/lens. In addition, posting gazillions of photos in a row by one person and posting monotonous private/family photos make that resource the rubbish dump.

 

[CalMin]

I use both (plus OneDrive, plus local backup). Can't have too many copies of my precious memories. Nice to have a tool for those switching from Android though.

 

[Goodeye]

Can’t select Apple to move to… only Flickr, Microsoft OneDrive, and SmugMug….

Same.

 

[jntdroid]

Can’t select Apple to move to… only Flickr, Microsoft OneDrive, and SmugMug….

Same. Maybe a slow rollout...

 

[jntdroid]

Original article states "rolling out over the next week".

 

[Sweetfeld28]

I hope they add Amazon Photos as an option... Prime gives you unlimited Photo backups; but no Videos.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Of course they release this right after I went through the grueling Takeout process to do it manually!

Still, glad they did it. I will be checking this out to get some family members out of Google. This may be the single most important data that people keep in these services.

 

[contacos]

And here I've been downloading photos from Google Photos and importing them manually into Apple's Photos app like some kind of savage. 😩

And me the other way around as I had no idea there was one by Apple either

 

[slater.checklan]

Does anyone know if a Spotify to Apple Music tool exists // would be in the works ?

 

[Christoffee]

Can I use this as an offsite backup tool, running the process every month or so and it won’t produce duplicate

 

[Christoffee]

Google's tool merely creates a copy of your photos and videos for another service. The original photos and videos will remain in your Google Photos account following the transfer process, unless they are manually deleted afterwards.

Is there a typo here? The files will remain in my iCloud account.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Can't wait for this to roll out to me in 6 months! I hate having all my photos from before a certain year stuck in the Googleverse.

 

[HDFan]

Can I use this as an offsite backup tool,

No. iCloud and Google photos are not backup services. Deleted files are removed after 30 days.

 

[meetree]

Does anyone know if a Spotify to Apple Music tool exists // would be in the works ?

I used Songshift a couple of years ago.

Soundiiz, Tune My Music, FreeYourMusic, etc. can help you as well, I didn't try them.

 

[one more]

Does anyone know if a Spotify to Apple Music tool exists // would be in the works ?

Try the SongShift app 🖐️

 

[ProbablyDylan]

I used Songshift a couple of years ago.

Soundiiz, Tune My Music, FreeYourMusic, etc. can help you as well, I didn't try them.

Soundiiz did it for me. Songshift has a 200 song per transfer limit unless you pay them.

 

[d686546s]

Soundiiz did it for me. Songshift has a 200 song per transfer limit unless you pay them.

Yeah, SongShift annoyingly went into a subscription model, but otherwise it mostly works well.

Unlike photos, you're not moving your own data so not all songs are available, but otherwise not an issue with SongShift.

 

[davide_eu]

I use both (plus OneDrive, plus local backup). Can't have too many copies of my precious memories. Nice to have a tool for those switching from Android though.

I keep my master copy in OneDrive, every night I sync my OneDrive to a local disk at my home, take a snapshot using "restic" (restic.org) and the backup repository is synced to an external S3 cloud service.

So, I have restore points for the last 28 days, one for each week for the latest 12 weeks, ...

 

[philstubbington]

Easily switch from one bad option to another!

The best photo site was Flickr back in the day.

I agree re:Flickr. I’ve given up on it now and switched to Apple. The migration was a pain and (thankfully) they don’t appear to have deleted anything in Flickr after, maybe, 2 years or more - useful if I figure out something didn’t migrate. Although with just under 50,000 photos on Apple now I’m not sure I would notice 😂

 

[pacmania1982]

I wish there was an easy way to move from OneDrive over to iCloud Drive. I've got about 860GB of photos and videos on my 1TB plan, but I have about 30GB used of my 2.2TB iCloud plan. The only way I can figure out how to do it is to download everything from OneDrive and upload it again.