Google and Apple are launching a brand new device to transfer photos from Google Photos to iCloud. As a part of the Data Transfer Initiative (DTI), the device will add iCloud transfers to Google Takeout’s export choices. 9to5Mac first spotted the announcement.
The device, which will roll out over the subsequent week, automates the transfer course of from Google Photos to iCloud, so that you don’t have to obtain, add or do something past initiating the method on the internet. An Apple help web page says it may take a number of hours to a couple of days to full, relying on the transfer dimension.
Transferring your footage from Google to iCloud gained’t delete them from Google Photos, so that you’ll have to do this manually if you’d like. In addition, the service gained’t work for little one accounts, Managed Apple ID accounts (these arrange by means of IT admins) or iCloud accounts with Advanced Data Protection turned on.
The device follows the 2021 launch of 1 that does the inverse: shifting your photos from iCloud to Google Photos.
The DTI launched in 2023 as a collaboration between Apple, Google and Meta. Officially, it was fashioned to additional the targets of the open-source Data Transfer Project (DTP), which started 5 years earlier. Unofficially, nicely, it’s most likely not a coincidence the DTI commenced a few months earlier than the European Commission named its “gatekeepers” below the Digital Markets Act, and the DTI’s targets occur to align with the governing physique’s rules. (Fancy that!)
Once it’s stay (we aren’t seeing it obtainable simply but), you may start the method in Google Takeout. In the meantime, you may learn Google and Apple’s directions for all of the fantastic print.
