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

[svish]

Happy to see this new tool. Should definitely make the transfer easy.

 

[steves_jobs]

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

Update: icloud is listed as “coming soon”.

Appears to be regional. Slowly rolling it out, I guess.

 

[steves_jobs]

I’m all for this - using takeout and waiting for those massive zipped folders is such a pain.

But… Google Photos is admittedly very good. I wish Apple would implement a bunch of the features into Photos, I’d be happy about that.

 

[philstubbington]

The biggest pain was those services that lose location information. I had a bunch of photos on F******k (which I no longer use) which stripped that out. Also my Canon 750D doesn’t have GPS so……

 

[iMac The Knife]

Conversely, I found it easy to switch from iCloud over to Google.

 

[sos47]

3 years after Apple released their tool to seitch from icloud to google

 

[kingtj1971]

Glad it exists... but I'm over here, backing up all my photos from my iPhone to NextCloud on a server running at home. Really tired of paying monthly or annual subscription fees for other people to keep my data for me.

 

[golgo1313]

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.

I'm glad I was lazy... I couldn't get myself to manually put back the meta data on the pics, even though there are some scripts that can do it. I swear they separate the two to make it hard to move away from Google. MUCH easier to import photos to Synology Photos from Apple photos/iClould Drive. Can't wait...

 

[Goodeye]

I feel like MacRumors article was a bit premature. All Google did was say that iCloud as a place to export to is coming soon. It's not live yet at all.

 

[CarAnalogy]

I'm glad I was lazy... I couldn't get myself to manually put back the meta data on the pics, even though there are some scripts that can do it. I swear they separate the two to make it hard to move away from Google. MUCH easier to import photos to Synology Photos from Apple photos/iClould Drive. Can't wait...

I put them into year based albums and dragged them into Photos on the Mac and crossed my fingers. Mostly went ok, at least the dates are mostly intact. Duplicate detection helped with the relatively small overlap.

 

[Bsj80]

Ok it looks like you can finally export to iCloud….

 

[Goodeye]

Ok it looks like you can finally export to iCloud….

About dang time!

Going in there now myself to get it syncing it over.

 

[golgo1313]

Ok it looks like you can finally export to iCloud….

Yup... I started my export yesterday. No notice of completion yet. 80gb of pics.