Universal Will delete duplicate photos work if I'm transferring from Google Photos?

[zach-coleman]

I'm considering transferring from Google Photos to iCloud photos. (Downloading my data as a .zip and uploading it on Mac) However, I've been backing up in Google Photos since long before I had an iPhone. So I kind of just want to download my entire Google Photos library and drop them into iCloud Photos, however that would cause every photo taken in several years to be duplicated, I would imagine. Will the duplicate feature in iOS 16 rectify this?

I still wish there was a way to separate downloaded photos from taken photos, that's been my major hangup with transferring to iCloud Photos. Google Photos has an archive feature, and on Android you can just disable the non-camera folders from getting backed up in the first place.

Merge duplicate photos and videos on iPhone

In Photos on your iPhone, merge duplicate photos and videos to save space and clean up your library.

support.apple.com

 

[DarkPremiumCho]

The duplicate photo detection did work for me. I enabled backup to Google Photos in my iPhone. After purchased the larger iCloud storage plan, I exported the photos from Google and imported to the iCloud-enabled Photos app in my Mac. I assume it would also work for iOS devices.

But Google messed up some metadata and Live Photos, resulting in wrong time stamps in photos and some Live Photos displayed as short videos. I am not sure if Google has fixed that.