![]() I’ve checked one of the JSON files and found that all photo/video file EXIF metadata was stored there. I was surprised to see that all the photo and video files were split in two - one file is an actual photo or video, and the second has the same name but JSON extension. I was excited and thought it would be easy to migrate all the photos to iCloud. ![]() This was promising because it allows me to do the bulk download of all the data I have in my Google account. The official Google Photos support article talks about their Takeout service. The last option in the list is to use the Google Takeout service. With that being said, both options mentioned above were not viable to me. So yeah, you can tell I’m into photography. I’ve scanned many images from 90x and uploaded them to Google Photos as well. Over the last 10-15 years, I have accumulated more than 90k photos and videos and roughly 30 shared and personal albums. One more thing to remember is a limit of 500 photos to download at one time from the Google Photos website. I have thousands of photos and videos in dozens of the albums, and it will take some time and a lot of clicking. The second option is to do Album by Album download from Google Photos. It seems that Google took that option away some time ago. I checked it in the web browser, Google Drive app for Mac and Windows, and iOS. There’s no option to enable the “Google Photos” folder on Google Drive. When I am writing this article, December 2021, the first method doesn’t work anymore. Or using Google Takeout (this is the option I went with)Įnable Google Photos folder on Google Drive #.Doing Album by Album download and upload to iCloud.Enabling the “Google Photos” folder on the Google Drive.I checked most of the articles, and there are three options for photos migration: Many search results describe steps on downloading photos from Google Photos and uploading them one by one or in bulk to iCloud Photos. ICloud Photos, also known as Apple Photos, is one of the iCloud services that give you an option to keep your photos and videos securely stored in the iCloud. The main question I have to answer was: How to transfer all the photos from Google Photos to iCloud Photos? iCloud Photos # Migrate Google Emails to iCloud Custom Domain I have separate articles where I wrote about our migration journey to iCloud: In addition, we have been Apple product users for more than a decade, and with the introduction of the Apple One subscription made sense for us to consolidate everything in iCloud. Even though Google Suite was suitable for our business and personal use, with closing our photo business, we no longer needed all the services. Over the years, we moved all our data (files, emails, photos) from iCloud, Dropbox and Microsoft cloud services to Google. Recently we have decided to move all our data from Google Suite of apps to iCloud.
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