Apple and Google team up to offer the option to easily transfer your media from Google Photos to iCloud Photos. This migration of images and videos from Google Photos will take place seamlessly with the help of Google Takeout. Of course, this transfer of images is subject to the space availability in your iCloud storage and other things you’ll need to remember before mixing both worlds – Google Photos and iCloud Photos.
By default, every Apple ID account gets only 5GB free storage in iCloud and that too gets filled quickly. So before you even consider of migrating your Google Photos, you’ll have to purchase more iCloud Storage from Apple. On the other hand, you get about 15GB free storage with your Google account. Quite likely the size of your Google Photos collection might be bigger than what the default iCloud account storage can handle. So that’s the first thing you’ll need to check before intiating the transfer.
In past, Apple and Google made it easy to migrate and sync your iCloud photos to Google Photos easily. The reverse migration is also possible, subject to storage availability – that’s the underlying attribute. In the coming weeks, Google Takeout for Photos will offer an option to choose ‘Apple – iCloud Photos’ to transfer the Google Photos to iCloud directly.
As noted earlier, the migration could take hours or days depending entirely on the volume/size of the images in Google Photos. In the coming weeks, Google Takeout page for Google Photos will show the support for ‘Apple – iCloud Photos’ in the list of third-party service to move your photos to. Google Photos Takeout already supports Flickr, SmugMug, and Microsoft OneDrive as the third-party migration options.
When the transfer completes, you’ll get a confirmation email from Google and Apple on completion of the migration. In the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you get a new album titled ‘Import from Google’ and it will show all the migrated images. This saves you the headache of transferring your entire Google Photos collection manually to iCloud Photos only to struggle with different errors while keeping the browser active.
