Switching from Google Photos to iCloud is about to be a lot less painful

Apple and Google are offering a new, astir painless mode to transcript files from Google Photos to iCloud. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Google is adding iCloud support to its information transportation instrumentality implicit the adjacent week, making it imaginable to determination your photograph room straight to Apple’s work — nary download necessary. It’s portion of a bigger information portability initiative supported by a fistful of large tech companies and complements the iCloud-to-Google-Photos work Apple rolled retired successful 2021.

The work is beauteous straightforward: photos and videos are sent straight to iCloud, truthful there’s nary request to download anything. You tin nonstop your full room astatine erstwhile oregon specify which albums you privation transferred. Google has a database connected its enactment page of the record types you tin transfer, which includes communal representation and video formats. And .webp, for immoderate reason. Initiating a transportation sends a transcript of each record to your iCloud account, truthful the originals volition stay successful Google Photos unless you delete them manually.

Google is the latest institution to connection a instrumentality similar this; arsenic portion of the Data Transfer Project, Meta released a instrumentality successful 2019 that lets you determination your Facebook photos to different platforms. Being capable to instrumentality your photos with you makes it easier to sphere memories and power betwixt telephone ecosystems, should you privation to bash that.

Big tech companies moving together? Unheard of! Letting you instrumentality your information with you betwixt platforms is, you know, the close happening to bash — and incidentally, it’s the benignant of happening regulators emotion to see.