Apple launches new service that lets you automatically transfer your photos from iCloud to Google Photos
Apple has recently started offering a way that let iCloud users transfer their photos and videos to Google Photos quickly and easily.
According to the Apple support document, users need to go to Apple’s privacy website (privacy.apple.com) and sign in to see the “Transfer a copy of your data” option.
As per the company, the transfer process takes around somewhere from three days to a week.
There are a few prerequisites, where a user needs to turn on two-factor authentication for Apple ID, and secondly, the user must have enough storage (at least 30GB) on their Google Photos account to complete the transfer.
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For anyone who feels like they’ve been held hostage by iCloud’s 5GB of free storage or just wants to try out a different photo storage app, this week Apple launched a new service designed to make it way easier to transfer photos and videos stored in iCloud over to Google Photos.
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As reported by MacRumors and further detailed in Apple’s support pages, Apple’s new transfer service allows users located in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the U.K. and the European Union to easily move content stored in iCloud to Google Photos.
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