Google just made it easy for Android to iPhone defectors to move their pics from Google Photos to Apple iCloud – but there’s a catch

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just made it easy for Android to iPhone defectors to move their pics from

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Photos to Apple iCloud – but there’s a catch

If you have all your snaps stored in

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Photos, but want to shift them to the iCloud equivalent – perhaps because you’re making the leap from Android to iPhone – then you’re in luck, as

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has just implemented a new tool that’ll do exactly this.

This is part of the Data Transfer Initiative (DTI), and previously, Apple made it possible to transfer your photos and videos directly from iCloud Photos to

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Photos. Now, as announced by the

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,

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has made it so you can send all your pics the other way, from its service to iCloud.

The ‘Transfer Data’ tool is rolling out over the next week, so you might not see it just yet – but it’s imminent, rest assured – and represents a very convenient way to get your images onto iCloud. (Although do note that your pics won’t be deleted from

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Photos, not unless you do that yourself, after the transfer).

It certainly makes things a lot easier than trying to manually shift a library of photos across (by downloading them to your PC, say, then uploading them to iCloud, which is a ponderous process).

If you’re wanting more details on the process,

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provides a nice, neat set of instructions in the form of

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There is something of a catch, though, as

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, which noticed the development, points out – and it pertains to the size of your existing photo library. Let’s ***** into that next.

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Analysis: Reasons to be careful

The mentioned caveat ***** in the size of the free cloud storage allocation in

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Photos and iCloud. Assuming you’ve plumped for free accounts with both – far from unimaginable – the allowance is 15GB with

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’s service and 5GB with Apple’s.

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So, as you can see, migrating from iCloud to

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won’t be a problem for freebie users, but as for the other direction – if you’ve got approaching 15GB of pics in

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Photos, that’s obviously not going to fit into Apple’s much more meagre free amount of storage. What happens then? Well, you’ll get 5GB worth of photos transferred over, then the migration will grind to a halt – and that’s that. In this case, you’ll have to pay up for more iCloud storage and run the transfer again.

It should also be noted that only supported file types will be moved over to iCloud, although that list encompasses most common picture and video formats. For image files, it includes JPG, GIF, PNG and RAW – the full list is available in

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’s instructions on the process that we linked above.

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