The author shares their experience of using both Apple Photos and Google Photos simultaneously for a year. They discuss the challenges of managing two separate cloud photo libraries and ultimately decide to switch to Google Photos as their primary photo app.
A little over a year ago, I wrote about a very silly purchase that I made. I signed up for a 2TB Google One plan, even though I was already paying for a 2TB iCloud plan. My intention was simple. I liked having all of my images in Apple Photos since I regularly use an iPhone, but I also wanted a reliable place to access all of my pictures when I use an Android phone. As such, I took it upon myself to back up and organize all my pictures across Google Photos and Apple Photos simultaneously.
That’s what I’ve been doing since October 2023. However, fast-forward to December 2024, and my experiment is over. No, I’m not going back to Apple Photos. Instead, I’m giving up on Apple Photos and moving to Google Photos as my primary cloud photo app. It’s not the outcome I expected, and this is how I got here. A few things went into this decision. The first was realizing that managing and maintaining two cloud photo libraries is a royal pain in the butt. It was fine for the first few months. When taking pictures on my iPhone, all I had to do was open the Google Photos app to have images backed up to my Google Photos account. When I needed to take photos from my Google Photos library and add them to Apple Photos (aka, any pictures I took with my Android phones), I opened the Google Photos app on my iPhone, selected all the images, and saved them to my device. Alternatively, I could also hop on my computer and do it that way. It was extra work, but it was going just fine. Every few weeks or so, I’d look at my Google Photos and Apple Photos libraries side by side, ensure they were both up to date, and go on with my day. But this was only sustainable for so long. I went on a lot of trips this year, which means I’ve been taking a lot of pictures — mainly on Android phones I’ve been testing and reviewing.
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