Apple now lets you automatically transfer your iCloud photo library to Google Photos

Apple has added a service that allows you to automatically transfer photos, videos and albums from your iCloud photo library to Google Photos (Photos) (Via MacRumors) Belongs to. Feature is A support document outlining the process, Which forces the bus to leave privacy.apple.com, Logging in and going through the “transfer a copy of your data” process. Apple says that the transfer will take from three days to a week.

Some things won’t transfer: Apple said that shared albums, smart albums, photo stream content, live photos, some metadata, and media not stored in your iCloud photo library won’t come along for the ride. The live photo is particularly eye-rising. IPhones take live photos by default, And Apple does not clarify whether the entire picture will be left behind, or simply video clips around it.

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For what it’s worth, the transfer tool tells me that 10,793 of my photos will be transferred, which is the exact number of pictures in my library. Given that more than 2,500 people are live, it seems that Apple is planning to move them, but we reached out to clarify. At the time of writing, we did not listen back.

Apple says that the feature will not remove anything from your iCloud photo library; This will simply make a copy of it, so you’ll still need to manually delete things if you no longer want to store them in iCloud. Additionally, the facility is currently available only to people in Australia, Canada, the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

If you want to jump from iPhone to Android or just use Google Photos, this tool should provide an easy way to quickly move all your photos to the service, without having to reload them yourself . A few clicks, and your photos will be on the way to their new home. Just make sure you have enough Google storage space.