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I simply installed Google Photos app and now every single iphone photo is automatically synced to my google account. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
by khazhoux 3y ago
I simply installed Google Photos app and now every single iphone photo is automatically synced to my google account.
Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
- mrtksn 3y agoDo you have to open the Google Photos app to sync or you set it and forget it, like take a photo and in a few moments its available everywhere?
- mcfedr 3y agoYou have to open it at least every few days. Only Apple apps can work reliably on iOS.
- trevoragilbert 3y agoYou can just let it run.
- albumen 3y agoUnless things have changed, yes but no. You have to leave the app running, and turn off display sleep/lock so the phone is always awake. Which practically means it has to be plugged in. It's a major pain. As someone else commented, a classic example of Apple limiting background sync in the name of "stability and battery life". That has a grain of truth to it, but let users make that choice!
- khazhoux 3y agoSet and forget. All my phone photos are “just there” in Google Photos app and on web.
- kelnos 3y agoI do that as well (Android user, so it's pretty much the default), but aside from not having to pay Google, there isn't a meaningful difference here: it's just trading one company's propriety cloud backup for another's.
- Andrex 3y agoGoogle's data interoperability is quite good though (Takeout). That was something Google did right 10+ years ago and I'm glad it hasn't died on the vine (and will probably see more development now, what with all this antitrust in the air).
- khazhoux 3y agoThere’s a giant difference. The claim is that Apple restricts other companies from providing cloud backup of photos. Google Photos proves this is incorrect.
- meragrin_ 3y ago> The claim is that Apple restricts other companies from providing cloud backup of photos. No, the claim is Apple makes it difficult to bulk download/export photos using Apple software with non-Apple hardware.
- rpmisms 3y agoa) this is a great solution, and b) I caught that reference
- anon373839 3y agoI believe Google Photos visibly downgrades the quality of your images, so it is not a viable option if you care about preserving the originals.
- tim333 3y agoYou have the option to turn that on or off.
- anon373839 3y agoOh, good to know. Does it preserve the original file exactly?
- tim333 3y agoI think so. The site says >Original quality - Store photos & videos with no change to their quality >Storage saver - Store more at a slightly reduced quality but I haven't really checked. It did seem to not preserve some of the special iphone format stuff like if you edit a photo on an iphone it keeps the original and the edit wheras on google photos I just got the edited image.
- piyush_soni 3y agoYes, but of course, that takes more data without their compression and one eventually has to pay more for storage as expected, but at least that option is there.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoThe parent post wanted to export their photos, not send them to Google. Why does Google need to be part of this equation?