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

Yous can asking 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 effectually the globe for transfers to Google Photos.

Y'all can request to transfer a copy of photos and videos you store in iCloud Photos to Google Photos. Transferring photos and videos from iCloud Photos doesn't remove or alter the content you store with Apple tree, but sends a copy of your content to the other service.

The transfer procedure takes betwixt three and seven days. We use this fourth dimension to verify that the asking was fabricated by 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 not exist available when y'all transfer your content to another service. More data most what data is transferred is listed below.

Before you request to transfer photos and video

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

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


If you add more than photos or videos to iCloud Photos before your information transfer starts, y'all'll need additional space in your Google account to complete information technology. If your Google account runs out of infinite during the transfer, non all of your items will be transferred. If y'all add, update, or delete content afterwards the transfer starts, or if your images and videos are notwithstanding uploading, these changes or additions might non be included in the transfer.

How to request to transfer your iCloud Photos content

To start a asking to transfer the photos and videos in iCloud Photos:

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

You'll be asked to sign in to your Google account to outset the transfer.

You lot'll receive an email notification of your transfer request and some other e-mail when your transfer is complete. If you cancel your transfer asking before information technology's complete, and some photos or videos have already been transferred, they remain in Google Photos. You tin check the condition of your request at privacy.apple.com/account.

Almost 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 industry-standard formats that are easy to open and read. In some cases, you may find that the transfer didn't include all the photos, videos, or formats that y'all expected and there are a few reasons why this could happen.

  • The transfer includes copies of photos and videos that you shop in iCloud Photos, associated with your Apple 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.
  • Only the well-nigh recent edit of the photograph is transferred and non the original version. Duplicates announced every bit just ane photo.
  • 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, live photos, some metadata, and photos and videos stored in other folders or locations—is not transferred at all.

Your Google account's full storage space applies to content transferred from iCloud Photos to Google Photos. Google Photos besides has a limit of xx,000 photos per album. If y'all transfer an album with more than twenty,000 photos, the boosted photos are still transferred but are non added to the anthology.

It's besides possible that the data you were expecting isn't in a format that tin be transferred or it may have been held only for a very short time and is no longer on our servers. Nosotros work hard to maintain accuracy and consistency, so the information associated with your business relationship and our responses to data requests may change equally our means of storage and collection alter. Apple tree strives to collect and store the minimum amount of data required to provide the services y'all use. Learn more about Apple's privacy policy.

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