

On iOS, if you have the space, open Settings then tap iCloud, Photos and Download and Keep Originals. To get these files back on macOS, launch Photos, then open the Photosmenu, choose Preferences, switch to iCloud and make sure Download Originals to Mac is selected. The only images and videos that might get missed are those you’ve uploaded to iCloud and deleted from your devices, if you’re using iCloud. If you want to keep everything as it is, you need to think about paying for Google Drive storage, as you only get 15GB for free.
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Switching from Apple Photos to Google Photosīefore you jump to Google Photos you need to decide if you want to store your photos (and videos) at their original resolution or whether you’re happy to put up with some resizing-images are stored at a maximum of 16 megapixels and videos are stored at a maximum of 1080p HD. If you choose the second option, you can store as much as you want, for free. You can in fact use these services alongside each other pretty easily, but in this case we’ll tackle going from one to the other wholesale. It’s also worth noting these are not exactly directly comparable services, with Apple’s photo offerings very much baked into its hardware and software, and Google Photos very much web-first and operating independently of your computers, phones and tablets.

For a lot of people it might be better to have a foot in both camps, at least for some photos or for some of the time, but for simplicity’s sake we won’t go into every possible scenario here.
