What's the easiest way to transfer photos from Google Photos to iCloud Photos?

Question

I have more than 5 000 photos stored on Google Photos and I'd like to know what's the easiest way to move them on iCloud photos. Since the free storage ends on June I want to move everything on iCloud.

Here's what I've tried :

• Selecting all of them on the Google Photos app and downloading them, but it randomly skips some pictures, and it stops after some hours of download. Since it downloads them in a random order I have to delete them all and start over.
• Downloading them from Google Takeout and uploading them from icloud.com on a PC, but it only accepts JPEG files, so most of the pictures are not uploaded (the file format is .HEIC) and videos are skipped.

I have no other idea on how to do this, I hope anyone can help!

Answer 1

You can download the photos from Google to your PC and then upload them to icloud.com

Answer 2

I have been attempting to do the very same thing for at least two weeks now.

I used Google Takeout and successfully imported all the files using the Photos application (which I sync to iCloud). I'd recommend this route.

My sticking point is that Apple's facial recognition is absolute trash. After two weeks of using both my 2017 i7 MBP and my iPhone 11 Pro Max, it still hasn't identified the majority of faces even after being tagged.