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

Y'all can asking to transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos—photos and videos associated with your Apple ID—to another service.

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

You can asking to transfer a re-create 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 shop with Apple tree, but sends a copy of your content to the other service.

The transfer procedure takes between three and 7 days. We use this time to verify that the request was fabricated past yous, and to brand the transfer.

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

Earlier you request to transfer photos and video

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

  • You're using iCloud Photos to shop photos and videos with Apple.
  • Your Apple ID uses ii-factor authentication.
  • You have a Google account to use Google Photos.
  • Your Google business relationship has enough storage bachelor to consummate 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 consummate it. If your Google business relationship runs out of space during the transfer, not all of your items will be transferred. If y'all add together, 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 asking to transfer your iCloud Photos content

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

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

You lot'll exist asked to sign in to your Google account to start the transfer.

You'll receive an email notification of your transfer request and another email when your transfer is complete. If you cancel your transfer request before it's complete, and some photos or videos have already been transferred, they remain in Google Photos. Y'all tin cheque the condition of your request at privacy.apple.com/business relationship.

About the photos and videos that are transferred

Simply 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 may find that the transfer didn't include all the photos, videos, or formats that you lot expected and there are a few reasons why this could happen.

  • The transfer includes copies of photos and videos that you store in iCloud Photos, associated with your Apple tree ID. Formats include: .jpg, .png, .webp, .gif, some RAW files, .mpg, .modernistic, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.
  • Only the most recent edit of the photo is transferred and not the original version. Duplicates announced as just ane 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 commencement 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 non transferred at all.

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

It'southward as well possible that the data you lot were expecting isn't in a format that can be transferred or it may have been held only for a very short time and is no longer on our servers. We piece of work difficult to maintain accuracy and consistency, so the data associated with your account and our responses to data requests may change as our means of storage and collection change. Apple strives to collect and store the minimum corporeality of data required to provide the services you use. Learn more than about Apple's privacy policy.

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