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Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech.

My name is Micah Sargent, and today we are taking a look at

another question. That's right, this is the show where I take your tech questions and I answer them,

because that's my job. That's what I'm supposed to do. That's what the show's all about. So this

week's question comes in from George, who writes, I have photos stored both in iCloud and in Google photos.

Is there a way to sync the two libraries together?

Well, yes.

Here's the real truth of it all.

As much as these companies are required in certain locales to provide the ability for you to take your data from them and move it to another place, which is called data portability, they aren't incentivized to work well with

each other in such a way that you can kind of use them both interchangeably.

And so this actually is a pretty common challenge. Like this is something that I hear people talk about because they have either moved from Android to iOS, from iOS to Android, or they have a family member who's on Android and they're on iOS and they want to check. There are many, many reasons why this might be the case, George. And so it kind of depends on how

hands-on you want to get. So let's first talk about kind of the simple solution, and it's the

solution that I use when it comes to having photos in Google Photos and in Apple's I Cloud Photos.

You basically use your iPhone or your iPad as a bridge between these two services.

Okay? And so with your iPhone, with your iPad, you first of all make sure that you have

iCloud photos enabled, which I imagine you do. You know, you tap on your name in the banner,

you choose iCloud, you choose photos, make sure

that's toggled on.

And then you get the Google Photos app and you install it on your device, you log in with your

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