Apple is launching a service for transferring iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos

Apple this week introduced a new service designed to make it quick and easy for iCloud users to transfer their photos and videos to Google Photos.

As described in Apple’s support document, you can go to Apple’s privacy website and sign in to see the “Copy your data” option. If you select this and go through all the steps, Apple will transfer your ‌iCloud‌ photos and videos to Google ‌Photos‌.

Moving photos and videos from iCloud Photos does not remove the content you have stored by Apple, but it does provide a way to backup and store a copy of the content on Google hotPhotos‌.

The transfer process takes between three and seven days, with Apple confirming that the request has been made by you. To make the transfer, two-factor authentication must be turned on for your Apple ID account and you must have a Google ‌Photos‌ account with sufficient storage to complete the transfer.

Smart Albums, Animation, streaming content, some metadata, and some RAW images cannot be moved, but formats including .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 are compatible.

Only the most recent edition of an image has been moved over the original version, and duplicates appear as just one image. Images are moved in their records where possible, but videos are moved separately.

Apple’s transfer service is currently available to customers in Australia, Canada, the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.