iCloud Photos VS Google Photos - Which Cloud Is The Best For YOU?

[@vinayakkhosla001]

This is THE BEST video made on this comparison. Trust me I have seen so many videos before this to find a good comparison. All of those videos had all the mumbo-jumbo, music and what not, but non of them gave this structured comparison- Kudos to you!

[@catguy4996]

Even though Google photos no longer offers free unlimited storage, the options available are still quite reasonable. You get 15GB of free storage- not really a lot, but Apple only gives you 5GB in comparison which is totally lame. And when you do have to pay on Google photos, it's cheaper. And Google photos doesn't appear to have any restrictions on photo/video quality- I believe it supports 4K and 8K with no problem (will cost you a lot of storage though) Oh and Google allows you to delete a photo/video from your current device without also deleting it from your account (and redownload it any time). Apple should take notes here!

[@giulianogenovese1258]

? It's literally the same price, both support 4k and 8k and full res photos, you can optimize storage on the iphone you don't have to delete photos

[@Matt-Are-Gee]

Plus the 5 years that you are able to upload that no storage cost, those photos will always remain free and not how to against storage. There's a blog post where it was something like a billion photos were uploaded every day and they weren't charging for it, there was no surprise of the day came when they eventually decided to stop unlimited free storage. Google photos is superior. As you say, Apple gives you a measly 5 GB. And of course I've never heard of Google photos being hacked. All you have to do is Google "iCloud hack" to see what I mean. Smh

[@kindfallenangel]

@@giulianogenovese1258 isnt delete is better than optimize since optimized still consume the storage while google photos delete it completely from the device storage but stored in the google photos??

[@giulianogenovese1258]

@@kindfallenangel no I think it works the same, on iPhone it saves an image in low quality(just to see the previews in the gallery) and then when you click on it it downloads the full version, I think that Google photos works exactly the same

[@okamikitsunegaming]

@@giulianogenovese1258iCloud you can see the photo or video offline on your cells. Google you got to have connection to network to see photos. Let say you want to show someone a photo out in the middle of no where or on a plane. No can do with Google because you need a connection. iPhone I can with no problem at all.

[@thembandlazi931]

Another great feature about Google photos is that it automatically creates memories of pictures taken ‘a year ago’ on a daily basis.

[@SimplyElite-x9v]

Google photos is the one for me.

[@simplymobilechannel]

Good choice! I love it too! :)

[@Vastfill]

Well put video, good job! Unfortunately google photos will no longer have unlimited storage for high quality videos and photos starting June 1st 2021. I'm debating on paying for icloud or Google photos.

[@simplymobilechannel]

Hi! This was sad news indeed! I personally pay for a google suite account which also comes with KZbin Music and my own domain so all in all, I will still be sticking with Google Photos as it offers so much value other than storage and I love how it integrates so easily. Thanks for your supportive comment and thanks for watching. Charmaine xoxo

[@avengerjalter]

I have been using Google photos for years, sucks this is happening.

[@Zigzag5710]

@@avengerjalter yah same :(

[@dwikadamara8410]

Thank you so much for this comparison, it helps me decide! That delete all feature on google phots is definitely a must for me.

[@cxssetteman182]

I think this one of the few reasons why Android is just more Efficient and User friendly. You don’t even need to worry about managing photos, the phone automatically creates albums for the various apps you download pictures from (Chrome, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Snapchat, etc) Having that amount of flexibility, Ig most users take it for granted. After switching to iPhone, i realise how paralysing it is. It’s a good thing you can still use Google Photos even on iOS.

[@pythondrink]

What?! 💀 I'm not an iPhone user but what's the use of iCloud if it's gon delete your stuff if u delete it from your phone?

[@diegoschlussel]

You will have more free space on your device because the real size of your images and videos will be in the cloud and the ones on your phone are simply going to be lower quality version of them available for you.

[@ميمحاد]

@@diegoschlussel is there a percentage or something for reducing cuz my photos are 90gb

[@diegoschlussel]

@@ميمحاد then you should upload it to your icloud and your phone will have more space given the full quality pictures will be in the cloud.. or upload it to google and delete it from your phone, which is what I do.

[@nichokp]

really comprehensive video! too bad google photos is removing their unlimited storage tho..

[@simplymobilechannel]

I agree! Thanks for watching Nicholas! :)

[@ericgcastile]

Great!

[@reamsel]

You forgot the most important: Icloud is a sync backup. Meaning that if you delete something from your phone it deletes from the cloud too. You dont get more storage on your phone with icloud. With google photos you can choose to delete photos on your phone while keeping them in the cloud, so you get more storage on your phone

[@okamikitsunegaming]

You can’t look at the photos when you have no connections at all with Google. You need a connection to see the backup. iPhone you can look at the photos with no internet or network connections.

[@okamikitsunegaming]

If you delete anything back up on Google photo. It deletes the photo on your cell also. Google photo is also a strange sync. The only true just pure back up is Amazon photo. There is Dropbox and OneDrive but they are like Google drive which are meant for files not photos really.

[@shijurose661]

I’d rather watch high quality content whisky being connected to the net rather then optimised / rendered quality offline/online.

[@PinkDaisy57]

Thanks for uploading such an informative video. It’s really helpful and cleared a lot of questions I had related to google and iCloud photos. 🙏

[@simplymobilechannel]

Glad it was helpful!

[@joshuanesbit]

question, if you have icloud photos on and it's 'optimise storage', does that mean google photos won't be able to access many of the photos locally on the phone due to them living on the cloud?

[@simplymobilechannel]

Hi ! Your photos will only be on iCloud if they are in the main photo gallery on your phone. Therefore, Google Photos should be able to access them.

[@Lim1986]

For me I use iCloud photos with my back up been download originals onto a hard drive.

[@patricia88779]

Hi. I understand that to extend an unlimited storage in Google Photos, we should choose 'high quality' and it will reduce photos bigger than 16MB. But how does it work with videos? Will they reduce them also or it's stored as original?

[@693gamefreak]

4K and 8K will compress to 1080p. If it's already 1080p, it should look about the same.

[@ClassicRebornRider]

Can we upload 4k videos on google photos if I purchase plan of 100 GB ?

[@GretaSzilvasi]

will photos be deleted from iCloud photos after a while automatically or only if I delete them from my Mac/iCloud? Thank you!

[@carahannamariannes4138]

Great video! Thank you so much for the knowledge 💜

[@benno9040]

omg cara i found u haha

[@dirtydimesgolf5734]

Hi! Can you tell me how you did the animation on the bottom of the screen to keep score?

[@simplymobilechannel]

Hi, we edited the video on iMovie. We created a transparent image for each change of score using Photoshop, then added on the top of the video. Hope that helps!

[@YGP-fr7rv]

I got answer for my question : using iCloud and Google Photos both. Thanks 😊

[@simplymobilechannel]

So glad the video helped! Thank you!

[@catguy4996]

Sure, you can't go wrong with both. I might try iCloud without going over the free 5GB limit. While 5GB is pretty lousy, it can be good enough to store a couple hundred important photos and videos.

[@YGP-fr7rv]

I have found some new behaviour. This applies to Screenshots, at least. Many Screenshots are uploaded to Google Drive twice. One upload in MBs, and the other one in KBs. Somehow, both are shown as "Original Quality". This behaviour is helpful to me. I can keep one (whichever I want), and delete the other. Of course, it is time consuming.

[@Me63753]

Thank you so much ma'am. 🙏🙏🙏

[@simplymobilechannel]

Most welcome 😊

[@darwincruz20]

What do you personally use?

[@troyhunt5634]

Google Photos all the way

[@darwincruz20]

@@troyhunt5634 sometimes I just feel torn about using all Apple services and sticking with Google services because living in Apple Walled Garden have some restrictions

[@simplymobilechannel]

Hi Darwin. I actually use Google Photos as my primary. Since releasing this video, Google has made further changes to their plan which will come into effect next year but I still prefer it hands down because of integration mostly. Also...I am using the Google Lens tool more and more and have found so many great uses for it. Thanks for watching. Charmaine xoxo

[@darwincruz20]

@@simplymobilechannel i see. I am on the other side of the camp. I have been using Google Photos or about a decade now. However their change lead me to the decision to go all out in Apple’s Ecosystem. I am starting to backup my photos now in iCloud

[@davidhughes9320]

@@darwincruz20 I have used iCloud Photos since it was released and I am happy to pay for a service to keep my photos safe. I also uploaded to the free Google Photos service as another backup. I am a bit torn, because even though I use an iPhone, iPad and Mac, I still use Windows, and if I ever move to Android in the future, there is no iCloud Photos app on Android. Google Photos is cross platform, although I do wish they had an app for Windows and Mac (I doubt that, Google rarely creates desktop apps and pushes people towards the web) and now everyone will have to start paying for it, maybe they will improve privacy. If Apple creates an app for Windows and Android then I would be happy. With Apple Music on Android and Windows, I am hopeful more Apple services will become more cross-platform. iPhone growth is slowing, so Apple is looking to grow their services business and the most obvious way to grow is cross-platform. Not only that, Apple had some job listings for UWP Windows Developers, so maybe some new Windows apps are on the horizon.

[@SuperYdu]

Thank you for clearing the concept of sync & backup. I thought iCloud does backup and i ended up purchasing it. 😅

[@simplymobilechannel]

Glad I could help!

[@mpnistal]

Google photos for me!

[@YabbaD_Du]

I’m sold! Google Photos is better! Don’t argue with me🤬

[@abdoulkuduayofe7983]

Thank you very much

[@Amritbhangal]

Hi! I recently discovered that my iCloud storage is full and need to upgrade. So i decided to install google photos on my iPhone and mac. I have two questions please . 1. if i delete the photos from iPhone as they are backed up to google photos ,is it going to change the quality? I selected slightly reduced quality option but i read somewhere that photos taken by iPhone aren't any higher quality anyway. 2. When i backed up my mac ,it showed 52000 items got backed up but in google dashboard it shows only 26000 photos. You did mention at the end of this video that google photos store two photos for each . Is this the case? if so then how I can delete them from mac? My apologies but with mac I am finding it hard work with. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

[@andrewoodutube]

You can delete the photos on the iPhone photo app after you have backed up all photos on to google photos. You will not loose any pictures, the google photo app has this as an option to free up space on your device. Most people would not be able to tell the difference between high quality and original.

[@simplymobilechannel]

Hi! Only EVER delete photos from your device using the google app; this will ensure you are only deleting what is already back up. Go to Google Photos / Library / Utilities / Organise your Library and select FREE UP SPACE. This will ONLY delete what is 100% backed up. You will often find that it leaves a few photos behind on your device. I inevitably find that these have been backed up but there are usually only a few so I manually check them to be safe. I have yet to find one that was not backed up. Also; the quality that Google stores photos is more than enough. Google Photos will compress any photos larger than 16MP which is good enough for a 24in by 16in print. An iPhone 12 takes photos at 12MP so you are not losing any quality by storing in Google Photos.

[@almo94yf]

@@simplymobilechannel hi Charmaine beautiful name as it applies as beautifully to your beauty! I follow your above algorithm and it says I have 5000 items to delete! If I follow your advice then by ok to delete this 5000 items do I really save my storage on my iPhone 7 Plus? I hate to admit that I am a hoarder! I have right now on my iPhone 7 Plus with 256GB storage showing, 1) 114.44 GB on WhatsApp(mainly videos), 2) Documents 51.58GB(mainly my English and Indian songs videos), 3) Photos 31.35 GB(I am Not sure that this photos already on Google photos also? And how do I know and confirm it? & then May be delete it from iPhone in order to save the storage because that’s my main issue i.e storage crunch!), 4) iCloud Drive 11.18GB(I don’t have iCloud service except free 5GB that is all used up anyway), 5) Video Saver 9.2GB(app that allow you to download your favorite songs on you tube video to your iPhone), 6) iMessage 1.91GB(never bother to delete it😟), & 7) Google Drive 1.35 GB 7) And of course rest of with lots of apps(I don’t have habit of video games thanks GOD) So with this description what would you suggest me Charmaine?? I would appreciated to get response from you with your suggestions with possible “How to do”’ it instructions in details to address this my burning issue! Thanks for your excellent video by the way and will look forward to hear from you! Hare Krishana Hare Rama 😎👏🙏

[@rqlwa21]

Can’t cast my photos with my I pad

[@odinxalko7242]

What is safer for you? Who guarantees more for data protection?

[@andrewoodutube]

iCloud as the encreption key is stored on the device and is user controlled. Whereas google hold the encryption key for its consumer services.

[@lockhart1895]

@@andrewoodutube Google is unreliable as a mfs

[@simplymobilechannel]

I think they are fairly similar on data protection; no recorded breaches for either. I don't have worries with either of them for this point.

[@odinxalko7242]

@@simplymobilechannel Thanks for the answer

[@odinxalko7242]

@@andrewoodutube Thanks

[@kewaldangal2555]

Okey thank you

[@simplymobilechannel]

You’re welcome 😊

[@alphinevillanueva4835]

I'm an apple user but I'm using google photos. It's more reasonable

[@sujeetkumarsaroj2641]

Does photo quality in Google Photos decrease? please reply now

[@bharathkinnera]

Yes if you selected high quality upload.. But you cant visually feel disappointed..

[@simplymobilechannel]

Google photos only compresses photos above 16MP.

[@sujeetkumarsaroj2641]

@@simplymobilechannel Thanks Bro. I understand that it reduces the quality of all types of photos.

[@catguy4996]

Yes, if you upload them in "storage saver". If you select "original quality" then the quality will not be affected. It'll upload even in 4k, 8k, etc

[@sujeetkumarsaroj2641]

you are not included quality features

[@simplymobilechannel]

Please expand?

[@AntBeastin1991]

Google photos uploads much faster, and is much easier to access anywhere. Icloud is a mess trying to access from a different PC.

[@adrianaherrera7202]

If i have no storage left in my phone can i still see the photos from Icloud with out internet?

[@ricdonato4328]

Very good explanation. Thank you for sharing your information. FYI you are comparing two items, iCloud and Google Photos, thus use better not best. Recall grammar school teaching us when, how, and why, the use of good better best. 1. Good: Referencing one item only. 2. Better: Referencing two items only. 3. Best: Referencing three or more items. Yes, the correct use of the good, better, best, makes a difference. Looking forward to more of your videos.

[@simplymobilechannel]

Thank you for watching Ric (and the info!) ;)

[@floopk8036]

who cares holy shit just watch the vid

[@pythondrink]

My goodness!!! Bruh nobody cares!!

[@HarshitIITROORKEE]

Apple is safe

[@simplymobilechannel]

Thank you for your comment Harshit! I agree!

[@hyderalihimmathi]

On amazon prime u can save it for free

[@ميمحاد]

wdym

[@winnai7210]

photos

[@NomadNo]

You said it first, icloud devs are probably the ones wrote iTunes, they need to be sacced asap, terrible dated limited app. Google all the way

[@versatileduplicity9313]

so i dont need icloud ?? all this fucking time ive been payin these scammers !! i currently have both

[@ميمحاد]

which one is better?

[@versatileduplicity9313]

@@ميمحاد google photos

[@Fausto181818]

You take too long to start, almost 3 minutes talking irrelevant stuff. Go straight to the point darling