I Use Both Apple Photos and Google Photos on my iPhone—This One’s Better
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Summary
The author of this article uses both Apple Photos and Google Photos to store their images but ultimately concludes that Google Photos is the better service owing to its flexibility, broad device accessibility and easier manual image organisation
They back up their photos to the cloud so that they can be accessed from any device, and to prevent the loss of their entire library if they were to lose, upgrade or change their phone
They initially made use of the free cloud storage offered by both Apple and Google, but these soon filled up and the author eventually subscribed to storage plans on both services
They favour iCloud for its better valuePlans start at 0.99/monthfor50GB,witha200GBplanfor2.99 that works out to 0.75per50GB.GoogleOne(thenewnameforGoogle′scloudstorage)ismoreexpensive,witha100GBplanfor1.99 and a 2 TB plan for 9.99,whichworksouttolessthan0.