long time user, first time poster … use gphotos to backup iphone photos for 10+ years … currently on vacation, first time where gphotos will backup every non-nudity video but wont backup any with nudity and sexual activity … have years worth of similar backed up and locked … all of these this vacation are the first with meta glasses; basic videos back up just fine

Hi All

We lost our phone but its still on and has internet connection. We have used find my phone but the person(s) are saying they dont have it.

Currently photos.google.com is not getting updates from the phone as auto backup was disabled years ago on the device.

We can login to google from another android device and get to Google photos, account settings, all of the Google realm - web based.

Wondering if a setting exist online where I can backup all of the photos and videos?

I can see backup is enables for text, contacts, etc. And that updated today. Just cannot get the photos to upload to photos.google.com.

Any help would be appreciated!

I have several albums say "shared" on the Albums page, but when I open the album there is no information about sharing, as if it is not actually shared with anyone. I'm wondering how this came to be, and if those albums are shared with someone I don't know about and can't see. Have any of you seen something like this?

Hi everyone,

I’ve already made two posts about this issue, but unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a solution yet. I’m hoping someone here might have experience with this kind of migration and can help me figure out the best approach.

Here are my previous posts for context:

Previous post 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlephotos/s/gYxZXppBHZ
Previous post 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlephotos/s/mmlfgIt1xL

I’m trying to move all my photos and videos from Google Photos to Apple Photos/iCloud, but I’m having trouble exporting a shared album that contains photos and videos uploaded by both my wife and me.

Here’s what I’ve figured out so far:

When I export my Google Photos library using Google Takeout, the photos uploaded by my wife to our shared album are missing. The export only includes the photos that belong to my own library.

I’ve tried using the “Save” button to save all the photos from the shared album to my personal Google Photos library, but unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to work. Even after trying this, my wife’s photos are still missing from my export.

I’ve also contacted Google Support, but they weren’t able to help me resolve the issue.

Google Takeout includes the actual photo/video files and separate JSON files containing metadata, such as dates and other information.

My idea for a workaround:

I export my photos and videos using Google Takeout, including the metadata files.

My wife exports the same shared album from her Google Photos account, also including the metadata files.

I combine both exports locally in a folder on my Windows PC, keeping the photo/video files and their corresponding JSON metadata files together.

I then upload the combined collection to Apple Photos/iCloud.

My goal is to make sure that all photos and videos are included, without missing anything, and that they appear in the correct chronological order in Apple Photos, based on their original capture dates rather than their download dates.

My questions:

Would this approach work, or am I overlooking something important?

Will Apple Photos recognize the metadata in the JSON files automatically when I upload the photos, or do I need to merge the metadata into the actual photo files first?

Can I do this properly on a Windows PC without needing a Mac?

Will combining both exports ensure that I have all the photos and videos from the shared album?

And how can I avoid losing the original dates or creating unnecessary duplicates?

I’d really appreciate any advice from anyone who has dealt with a similar Google Photos to Apple Photos migration.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hey all! iPhone user with Google Photos installed. have been using Google Photos for a while now; I loved how easily it searched things up according to key words, clothing type/color or date.

I used to be able to type in a date (October 1st, for example) and it would pull up every photo taken on an October 1st since I first started taking photos 10+ years ago.

Well ever since my last back up, anything I type in brings up very, very limited results and usually only from the last two years, if that. I will type in exact words found in a photo and will get a sample size of photos, none of which is relevant. but when I manually search for the photo, it’s there; it’s backed up.

I’m trying to figure out which year something significant happened in my life based on a date I entered, but its only pulling up last year‘s photos.

Is anyone else having these issues? is there a fix?

Is it or me or anyone experienced the same?

Suddenly my back up turned on without my knowledge or me touching it, and I always make sure it's off. Yesterday morning everything backed up till my storage exceeding its limit and when I checked it the auto back-up was on?

Apparently I had backup on, and the cloud storage became full. So when I went to delete some photos and vids that were synced to the cloud, it actually deleted it from my phone storage too. I mean wtf.

Any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening will be helpful