![]() In the Google Drive sync preferences on my MacBook, I selected the folders I wanted to download, waited on the download to finish, and then import them to Apple Photos. ![]() Unfortunately, there is no way to move things directly from one cloud service to another. ![]() It makes sense, and is a little unnerving. I’ve enjoyed this over the years, but more and more I hear perspectives like the one linked above. Without damaging the originals, they will string together a loop of several similar pictures they’ll create videos of related pics set to music or maybe apply special lighting to a picture they think is a particularly good one. Google Photos also automatically does a bunch of cool stuff with your photos. Why haven’t I moved everything to Apple Photos before now? At first I was taken back by the fact that keeping everything in Apple Photos means you can’t delete pics off your devices and just store them in the cloud. I’m also tired of giving Google ten dollars a month for storage. Why? Because I am becoming convinced that Apple is more concerned about my privacy than Google is. I spent downtime during the past few days making sure copies of everything pre-2015 was moved over to Apple Photos because I’m think about taking all my pics and videos out of Google. I didn’t start using the iCloud/Apple Photos combo until late in 2015. ![]() I’ve used Google Photos as an automatic photo backup since 2011. ![]()
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