ICloud Photo Library. Since then, it’s become a key part of Apple’s iOS and iCloud story. Many people in the Apple ecosystem have 3 devices (Mac, iPad, and iPhone), and they might also have an Apple TV. By enabling iCloud Photo Library, you can have all your photos on all of your devices.

If you traded in your iPhone for a Google Pixel — or you’ve decided to get rid of your Pixel and get an iPhone 7 Plus — there might be the need to switch your cloud photo libraries to the opposite service — Apple Photos to Google Photos, or Google Photos to Apple Photos.

Of course, there’s no reason to just use one service or the other. Apple Photos is very much built into Cupertino’s various devices, whereas Google Photos is a nimble, web- and browser-based service. They can certainly complement each other. But for the sake of simplicity, here’s how to switch all of your content over en masse.

How to Switch from Apple Photos to Google Photos

1. Download the Google Photos app for iOS, or the desktop app for macOS.
2. The Google Photos Mac app will ask you which photo libraries you want to back up, whereas the iOS app will simply back up all the photos it finds. From here, it’s pretty easy just to find the content on your devices.

• If you are a Mac or iOS user, all your photos are stored in an iPhoto Library. If you want to move or migrate iPhoto Library to Google Photos, then first download and install 'Google Photos Backup' desktop application on your Mac.
• Apple Photos for Mac also lets you create folders to, say, corral several albums and projects into one container, and you can do the same thing in Google Photos using Collections.

Google Photos App For Macbook

Either Google Photos app will likely miss the content you’ve uploaded to iCloud and deleted from your device, however. To get those photos to upload to Google, simply follow these steps.

1. On a Mac, launch the Photos app.
2. Open the Photos menu, and click on Preferences.
3. Switch the toggle to iCloud, and ensure that Download Originals to Mac is selected.
4. On an iOS device, open Settings.
5. Tap iCloud.
6. Go to the Photos menu.
7. Tap on Download and Keep Originals.

Google Photos For Macbook Pro

Alternatively, you could use the iCloud browser client to download pictures individually, or in bulk. Once they’re on your computer’s hard drive, you can upload them pretty easily to Google Photos via the app or a web browser.

How to Switch from Google Photos to Apple Photos

Similarly, switching from Google Photos to Apple Photos isn’t that difficult of a process — but it does require a computer. There’s no way to switch directly from Google’s cloud service to Apple’s. In any case, here’s the opposite process.

1. Open Google Drive via web browser on your Mac.
2. Open the Settings page.
3. Go to the General tab.
4. Make sure ‘Automatically put your Google Photos into a folder in My Drive’ is enabled.
5. Download the macOS Google Photos app.
6. Ensure that the Google Photos folder is selected when it asks for a list of photos to sync.
7. Open the Photos app.
8. Click File and Import, and select the Google Photos folder.

Google Photos Login

If you’re on a Windows machine — instead of a Mac — stop at Step 6, and use iTunes to sync the folder to your iOS device. Alternatively, you can use the iCloud web site to upload your photos to the Photo Library.

There’s also a service called Google Takeout, which you can use to download a compressed folder with all of the images and videos in Google Photos.

Google Photo App For Windows 10

If you are a Mac or iOS user, all your photos are stored in an iPhoto Library. If you want to move or migrate iPhoto Library to Google Photos, then first download and install 'Google Photos Backup' desktop application on your Mac. Once you have installed 'Google Photos Backup', it will check the iPhoto Library option by default. Now click 'Start backup' button to migrate iPhoto Library to Google Photos.
You have another option to migrate iPhoto Library to Google Photos i.e via Google Drive. To do so, you need to download and install Google Drive Desktop app on your Mac and create a folder on you desktop named 'iPhoto Library (Date)'. Export your iPhoto Library to your desktop using the folder you have just created. Be sure to choose 'Original' file type and 'Highest Quality' and include videos. Now drag the folder to your Google Drive desktop sync folder.
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