Does Google Photos make sense for an iPhone/Apple user?

[Prohibiting]

Just to set the scene, I currently pay for Google cloud photos storage and Adobe Lightroom cloud.

Since switching back to Apple 6 months ago, should I bin off Google photos and pay for Apple cloud storage instead?

At the moment, when I take photos and screen shots on my iPhone, they automatically get pushed to Google photos. However, if I want to make a quick edit of the photo on my iPhone, it’ll then push a new version to Google photos; annoying. Alternatively, if I want to edit some nice photos in Lightroom, I’ll make the edits, save it to my iPhone photos, and then that gets pushed to Google photos so I end up with it in 3 places sometimes.

This is dumb, right? I guess I need a little clarification before biting the bullet. Something to add is that I use Google drive (google docs) for all my document file management which I really like. Does this mean it makes sense to switch to Apple drive for all my folders and files (plus use Page instead)?

One final thing, I use a MacBook too, but rarely.

Thanks.

[AJB88]

Whats the price difference between Apple & Google that might be the swayer for me!

I'm exclusive to Google Ecosystem apart from a work iPhone so I wouldn't consider using the Apple one, but you seem to be more Hybrid.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Be aware that Google may datamine your photos...

[x5tuu]

We are pretty much a total Apple household - Macs / iPads / iPhones / Apple TVs / HomePods / etc...

BUT, we use google photos and google drive as it just works better in our experience and it happens that we were given a load of Google Home Hubs for free and these are all setup to be digital photo frames powered by Google Photos which is handy for family - esp being able to see photos of us from holidays as/when they are taken

[Tycho]

x5tuu said:

We are pretty much a total Apple household - Macs / iPads / iPhones / Apple TVs / HomePods / etc...

We are pretty much in the same situation but I moved from Android about 12 months ago. Always used Google Photos so kept my photos with them and also have them in iCloud. I figure that it's best to have them in 2 places for an additional couple of quid and I also share the library on Google with my wife and I'm surprised that you can't do that with Apple. You have to share folders manually in iCloud which is rubbish.

[Prohibiting]

Thanks all.

Today I have looked at moving google drive and photos to iCloud, but honestly, google drive is miles ahead of Apple iCloud Drive/files, particular when using it in a web browser.

I’m thinking of simply turning off google photos / disabling the sync/backup and paying extra storage for iCloud. That way I can still use google drive for file management. Seems a simple workflow. I could then download all my photos from google drive onto an external hard drive and stop the subscription for the storage I have.

Simples?