Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos drove to some other service

You tin can request to transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos—photos and videos associated with your Apple ID—to another service.

This service is available to customers in over 240 countries around the world for transfers to Google Photos.

You lot can asking to transfer a copy of photos and videos yous store in iCloud Photos to Google Photos. Transferring photos and videos from iCloud Photos doesn't remove or change the content you store with Apple, but sends a re-create of your content to the other service.

The transfer process takes between three and seven days. We use this time to verify that the asking was fabricated past you, and to make the transfer.

Some data and formats available in iCloud Photos—such as Smart Albums, Live Photos, or some RAW files—may non be available when you transfer your content to some other service. More data almost what data is transferred is listed beneath.

Before you request to transfer photos and video

Before you asking to transfer your iCloud Photos content, please make sure:

  • You're using iCloud Photos to store photos and videos with Apple.
  • Your Apple ID uses two-factor authentication.
  • Y'all have a Google account to use Google Photos.
  • Your Google account has enough storage available to complete the transfer.


If y'all add more photos or videos to iCloud Photos before your data transfer starts, you'll need boosted space in your Google account to complete it. If your Google account runs out of infinite during the transfer, non all of your items will exist transferred. If you add, update, or delete content after the transfer starts, or if your images and videos are still uploading, these changes or additions might not be included in the transfer.

How to request to transfer your iCloud Photos content

To outset a request to transfer the photos and videos in iCloud Photos:

  1. Sign in with your Apple tree ID at privacy.apple.com.
  2. Select Transfer a re-create of your data.
  3. Follow the prompts to complete your request.

You'll be asked to sign in to your Google business relationship to start the transfer.

Y'all'll receive an e-mail notification of your transfer request and another email when your transfer is complete. If yous abolish your transfer asking before it's complete, and some photos or videos have already been transferred, they remain in Google Photos. Yous can check the condition of your request at privacy.apple.com/account.

About the photos and videos that are transferred

Only content stored in iCloud Photos* is transferred. Photos and videos are transferred either in the original format or in manufacture-standard formats that are easy to open and read. In some cases, you lot may find that the transfer didn't include all the photos, videos, or formats that you expected and at that place are a few reasons why this could happen.

  • The transfer includes copies of photos and videos that you lot store in iCloud Photos, associated with your Apple tree ID. Formats include: .jpg, .png, .webp, .gif, some RAW files, .mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.
  • Simply the most contempo edit of the photograph is transferred and not the original version. Duplicates appear equally but one photograph.
  • Whenever possible, photos are transferred with their albums. Videos are transferred separately, without their albums.
  • Once transferred to Google, the filenames of albums and videos start with "Copy of."
  • Some content—including shared albums, smart albums, photo stream content, alive photos, some metadata, and photos and videos stored in other folders or locations—is not transferred at all.

Your Google account's total storage space applies to content transferred from iCloud Photos to Google Photos. Google Photos likewise has a limit of 20,000 photos per album. If yous transfer an album with more than xx,000 photos, the additional photos are still transferred but are not added to the anthology.

It'due south also possible that the data yous were expecting isn't in a format that can be transferred or it may have been held only for a very short fourth dimension and is no longer on our servers. Nosotros work hard to maintain accurateness and consistency, and so the data associated with your account and our responses to data requests may change as our means of storage and drove alter. Apple strives to collect and shop the minimum amount of data required to provide the services you apply. Larn more than about Apple tree's privacy policy.

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