For years this has been a struggle.
From using external hard drives, to burning your
photos into discs...
but both Apple Photos and Google photos provide fantastic solutions.
Today we are going to look into the advantages and disadvantages of both of them,
and find out which one is the best for you.
The first thing we should talk about is the cloud.
What is the cloud? I'm gonna explain this in a nutshell. Whenever you shoot a photo with
your phone if you use Google photos or
Apple photos those photos are
automatically stored in the clouds when
what's actually happening is that phone
is being stored in Google or Apple's
computers their servers those servers
are replicated all across the world so
if one fails there's a backup and if
that one fails there's another backup so
there's really no chance of your photos
being deleted accidentally they're also
super secure so there's no recorded
history of an apple or a Google Photos
server hack any photo that has ever been
leaked online happened because someone
was careless about their phone or their
computer passwords so if all these
photos are stored in the cloud what does
that mean for you it means that you can
access those photos anywhere it means
again that there's no chance of deleting
them accidentally and finally it means
that your devices are offloaded from
those photos so if you're running low on
storage on either of your devices both
of these apps actually automatically
delete the photos from your devices they
just keep a thumbnail so they can free
up some space so you can take more
photos now talking about some other
shared features both support video as
well video is usually hard to handle it
because videos are often so large that
they take up a lot of space but both of
them will handle your videos no problem
both of these apps also share great auto
editing tools so there's this magic wand
that you can press that automatically
edits your photo so it'll fix your color
balance and your saturation and your
brightness and it'll make your photos
look stellar with just a click which is
pretty much as good as automatic gets
these days another great advantage of
both of these apps is indexing so both
Apple photos and Google photos will
index your photos based on their
location whenever you shoot a photo with
your phone that photo probably has a GPS
tag which remembers the location where
you actually shot that picture what both
of these do is that they let you browse
for example your latest strip because
all the photos were shot around the same
area and they know that that's not the
area where you usually take pictures
both of them also index spaces in your
photos if you allow them to so what that
does is it groups photos of your kid or
photos of your family or each each
person that you take a photo with and
they're all grouped in the same place
now that of course is very useful if
you're looking for a specific photo you
took with that person but they also use
that information for little videos and
custom things that they make we look
into those in a second and finally and
this is probably the most powerful
feature that both of these apps have the
assistant slash memories feature what
that does is it automatically groups
photos from your latest trip or photos
that you took X number of years ago or
photos that you took with certain person
and it groups it into little videos or
automatic designs or automatic
animations or automatic gifts that they
generate so they this is a great way to
you know to share an old memory or just
to remember something that happened a
while ago in a fresh and creative way
and I think that this is pretty much the
future in the end you know the struggle
the reason why I started this blog is
what do we do with all these photos that
we've shopped over the years and both
assistants and memories I believe are
going to be the solution to this there
still works in progress
they're not perfect but I'm very
confident that in the next five to ten
years both of these features will
certainly solve memories for us now
let's look in-depth into the pros and
cons of Apple versus Google photos
okay so advantages of Apple photos over
Google photos the first one is support
for live pictures so a lot of phones
these days are offering this feature of
live photos but that actually does is
when you shoot a picture the camera it
captures a little bit of video before
and after you shoot the photo so that
let's see for example change the frame
that you took or let's make these little
animated gifts for eye native or
animated boomerangs or loops out of your
photos photos that you maybe didn't know
we're live you can sort of bring a new
life to them another great advantage of
Apple photos is support for raw images
so if you are a professional
photographer or even an amateur
photographer and you own a DSLR camera
you should be shooting all your photos
in RAW format basically the RAW format
captures a lot more information on a
picture so let's see for example correct
overexposed or underexposed
most photos without blowing out any of
the colors so if you own a camera that
shoots wrong you just you should
absolutely be using that feature and
then you can know that Apple photos will
not only store those real files for you
but provide the tools to edit them
that's something that Google photos
doesn't do finally another great
advantage of Apple photos is that it's
pretty much integrated into the Apple
environment especially for for tools
like iMovie or Final Cut Pro if you want
to edit videos so any photo or video
that you've kept in Apple photos you can
pretty much index from inside of iMovie
or Final Cut and then bring them into
your project
now disadvantages of Apple photos it's
an Apple only product so if you own an
iPhone but you don't own a Mac then
importing photos into Apple photos is
only going to be possible from your
phone and that might bring some
complications another disadvantage of
Apple photos is that the web version is
pretty much useless so they have a
native app for your Mac and obviously
they haven't named it native app for
your iPad or your iPhone but the web
version that you could potentially
access on any browser is not useful at
all it doesn't have any of the editing
tools exporting photos on there is hard
and it takes a long time to load
especially if you have a large library
then I talked about the phase
recognition right so Apple doesn't do as
well on recognizing faces as Google does
so you know taking the same library from
one platform to the other I was able to
get a lot more matches on certain faces
on Google versus Apple photos so though
the other disadvantage here is that
Apple photos is a paid product there's a
free version that gives you five gigs
for free but that's really only enough
for a handful of pictures and after that
you need to go into a paid plan Google
does offer some free alternatives and
we'll look into those in a second as we
review google photos so for the past few
days I've been playing around with the
new Huawei mate 20 pro I made a whole
video review about why I'm not keeping
it as my main cell phone but it gave me
the opportunity to try Google photos in
depth on a device that wasn't
manufactured by Apple
so some advantages of Google photos
first of all it's free they have this
option in which they compress all your
photos into their high quality format
but you can upload as many photos as you
want and you'll never be charged for it
so it's great if you don't care that
much about keeping your photos in raw or
if you trust their
they're high definition which is
actually very good you can choose this
option and then never have to pay to
store your photos so I'm assuming that's
gonna be a fantastic feature for many of
you if you do choose to pay for Google
photos here is a comparison table on the
pricing for each one now I mentioned
that both Apple photos and Google photos
have this memories / assistant feature
but the Google assistant is actually
very very nice
it'll for example pick random video and
turn it into a little gift or it'll pick
photos and change the colors completely
or since it's since Google is very
efficient at understanding what is in
the photo it can generate some pretty
cool and creative results without any
effort this came to me as a as a
surprise so I went through the process
of moving all my photos from Apple
photos to Google photos which was an
extensive process because they're in
like 350 gigabytes of picture but as
photos were uploading I left my computer
on and just left it at the office just
uploading pictures as new photos
uploaded the assistants started
generating me who very very cool gifts
and animations that would remind me of
old times and maybe pictures that I
forgot I have obviously another
advantage here is that Google Photos
pretty much works on any device so it'll
work on an iPhone it'll work in an
Android phone and the web version of
Google Photos is actually very strong it
provides almost every single feature
that you can find on the app version so
it gives you access to all your pictures
in all devices you know went wherever
you are so disadvantages of Google
Photos like I said raw I do have a lot
of RO photos that I'd like to store on
Apple photos and keep a backup there and
that's something that didn't work on
Google Photos at all again they provide
you with the option up below uploading
them to Google Drive but you know
they're not easy to index or you can't
you can't really edit them inside of
Google Drive so that's that's something
that I hope that they take care of
because they're they could be the
strongest of the two if it wasn't for
that feature now the question is which
one did I end up using I actually end up
sticking with both again both have stuff
that I really like and that make them a
premium photo product for me so in case
of Google I think the strongest feature
is the assistant now there's a whole
deal about these automatic videos and
this is a lot of what
I'm gonna be exploring over the next few
months in this blog I'm gonna go to
Everest base camp as a project next year
and I want to understand what's the best
way to document a trip like this I'm
always we gonna bring all my cameras and
my drone and my GoPro but I'm prepared
to spend a whole lot of time editing the
video just the way I wanted I want to
balance and find out which is better if
I should spend I don't know a hundred
hours editing this full production video
or if Apple photos or Google photos can
come up with a video that's maybe not as
good or hopefully not as good but decent
enough so that most of humanity can find
an efficient way to organize their
photos I should also talk about local
storage so before Apple photos and
Google photos came along your only
alternative was really you know keeping
hard drives the challenge with hard
drives is that they're really just a
time bomb you know that a hard drive is
gonna eventually fail you just don't
know when and if a hard drive fails you
pretty much lose everything so you might
want to keep two hard drive backups but
that's gonna cost maybe what two hundred
dollars to keep two hard drives and you
have to keep them in sync so it's not
it's not efficient it's no longer more
efficient than then the cloud-based
alternative now the final subject that
we should talk about is security we are
all aware of you know celebrities photos
being hacked or people's phones getting
hacked and near their photos leaking
online now why does that happen as a
matter of fact it hasn't happened
because Apple or Google were hacked it
hack it happens because their accounts
were hacked how do you protect yourself
from this well first of all keep a
strong password don't tell anybody
your phone PIN and you're making a
complicated code but I think the
strongest resource that you have at your
disposal is using 2-step verification in
a nutshell 2-step verification means
that you have your actual password and
another pin sort of six digit password
that gets refreshed and generated every
twenty seconds so if you have 2-step
verification and you and somebody tries
to login into a new device they are
gonna need that number and since they
don't have it since you're the only one
who has that then you're pretty much
protected against most hacker attacks
now wrapping up let me know in the
comments which is your favorite proud
firm and if I missed any of the most
important features see you next
