Using Apple Photos and iCloud tin fill upwards your MacBook's hard drive. So it's a skillful idea to transfer all of your pictures stored in Apple Photos and iCloud to Google Photos. This way, you tin can make them bachelor on any device and repossess the infinite on your Apple tree device.

After that, you can view, search, and sort them quickly without relying on iCloud. And you can fifty-fifty edit them using relevant native or third-party apps.

Hither's how to export your pictures from Apple Photos and iCloud to Google Photos.

How to Motion Apple Photos to Google Photos on Your Mac

Apart from storing photos locally, the Apple tree Photos app lets yous sync and download pictures from your iCloud account. Y'all tin download the original versions of your photos, merely that tends to occupy more space on your Mac. So, nearly folks prefer using the optimized versions.

Transferring your pictures from your Mac to Google Photos will brand them accessible from any device. If you lot have many pictures to movement, Google'southward Backup and Sync tool tin can handle it efficiently.

Hither's how to transfer your pictures from Apple Photos to Google Photos on your Mac:

  1. Open up the Apple Photos app on Mac and go to Photos > Preferences in the menu bar on the top-left.
  2. Switch to the Cloud tab and enable the choice for Download Originals on this Mac under iCloud Photos. You lot might take to wait for a bit if you program to transfer the original versions of the photos.
    iCloud Photos options in Apple Photos
  3. Download the Fill-in and Sync tool from the Google Photos apps page.
  4. Sign in to your Google account, and choose Back up photos and videos while setting up.
  5. The tool selects Pictures and Photos Library folders past default. Nether that, choose Loftier orOriginal upload quality.
  6. Striking Kickoff to back upwardly all your photos to Google Photos.
    Backup and sync tool for mac

If iCloud sync in the Apple Photos app is disabled, open iCloud.com on your Mac and download all the photos manually. Then, move those images to the Pictures folder on your Mac so that the Backup and Sync tool tin save a copy in Google Photos.

After the sync finishes, you may remove the Backup and Sync tool. Also, keep in mind that deleting those pictures from your Mac won't remove them from Google Photos.

This method eliminates the need to keep a web browser running to directly upload several gigabytes of photos to the Google Photos site.

How to Transfer iCloud Photos to Google Photos on iPhone

Moving pictures and videos is a bit easier if yous have the Google Photos app installed on your iPhone. With that, yous can directly transfer your photos without downloading them on your iPhone.

Download: Google Photos for iOS (Free, in-app purchases available)

Hither's how yous can move images in iCloud Photos to Google Photos on your iPhone.

  1. On iPhone, get to Settings > Photos and so select Download and Go along Originals (uses more than storage) or Optimize iPhone Storage.
  2. Open up the Google Photos app on your iPhone.
  3. Tap the Business relationship icon in the upper-right corner and select Photo Settings.
  4. Select Back upwardly & sync and enable the toggle for Back up & sync.
  5. Under Upload Size, you tin cull between Loftier Quality and Original.

A progress ring with a tiny arrow will appear around the Account icon to bespeak that the backup is in progress.

Use Apple tree's Privacy Site to Transfer iCloud Photos to Google Photos

Apple's dedicated Privacy site lets yous request copies of all your photos and videos stored in iCloud, allowing you to transfer them to Google Photos. Exporting these photos volition non remove them from your Mac or iPhone unless yous delete them manually.

Here'southward how to movement your iCloud Photos to Google Photos using Apple'south Privacy site.

  1. Open up Apple tree'due south Data and Privacy site and sign in with your Apple ID.
  2. SelectRequest a copy of your data.
  3. Scroll down to the bottom, check the box for iCloud Photos, and select Keep.
    Select iCloud Photos Download from Privacy Site
  4. Click on the dropdown to select the appropriate file size you want to download.
  5. Select Consummate Request to social club a copy of your iCloud photos.

Depending on how many photos you have, Apple takes about three to seven days to verify your data collection request. After that, you get an email with a link to download your iCloud photos.

That link takes you to Apple tree's Privacy site. Afterward you log in, you get the option to download the requested photos. Alternatively, you lot can delete that copy of the photos too.

Link to Download iCloud Photos from Privacy site

In one case you download the Nix file and unarchive it, your pictures and videos announced in the Photos and Recently Deleted folders. The other folders contain CSV files organized by appointment, and comprise other details near the photos.

With this method, your need to annotation a few things:

  • Apple tree takes three to seven days to set your data and send a transfer link to your e-mail.
  • You can transfer photos and videos in the nigh popular image and video formats.
  • Google Photos shows photos and videos with a "copy of" label at the beginning of the filename.
  • Google Photos does non import smart albums, photo streams, shared albums, metadata, or fifty-fifty Alive Photos—even though Google Photos supports them.

Since this is a one-fourth dimension transfer process, whatever new photos you add together and sync to iCloud using your Mac or iPhone won't appear on Google Photos automatically. You'll have to transfer them manually to Google Photos.

Sync Apple tree Photos and iCloud With Google Photos

While Apple Photos and iCloud tin can simply store your pictures, Google Photos offers better tools to organize and sort them. After moving your photos, y'all can delete them from your Mac and even iCloud. That won't remove the pictures from your Google Photos account.

Of course, all of this makes sense if you have enough Google storage space. If your Google Photos storage also fills up eventually, you tin can export those photos and videos. In this instance, consider other cloud storage alternatives to Google Photos such as Amazon Photos, OneDrive, Dropbox, or Flickr.

How to Export Your Photos and Videos from Google Photos

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