Why Is Google Takeout Not Showing iCloud? [Workaround Here]

• User Cases
• Why Is Google Takeout Not Showing iCloud?
• Best Workaround to Directly Transfer Google Photos to iCloud
• Conclusion

User Cases

🔎 Case from Apple Discussions: Why can't I use the Takeout option to move photos to iCloud? I didn't see an iCloud option when I tried to use the Takeout service today to move pictures to my iCloud account.

🔎 Case from Google Help: I'm attempting to move my Google Photos pictures to iCloud. Go to Google Takeout and choose "Apple - iCloud Photos" as the file destination to transfer to, according to the instructions I found online, but that is not an option for my Google Takeout.

🔎 Case from Reddit: I'm moving all of my pictures from Google Photos to iCloud using Google Takeout. It ran for two days, copying about 20,000 photos, and then I received this email that said some of my photos and videos had been moved to iCloud already, but the rest could not be moved. I don’t know which ones are unable to move. If I run the migration again, there will be a lot of duplicates.

Why Is Google Takeout Not Showing iCloud?

Before we discuss why Google Takeout does not show iCloud, let’s figure out how you can see the “Apple – iCloud Photos” option in Google Takeout:

1. Open your Google Photos and click on your profile picture. Then, choose “Manage your Google Account”.

2. Select “Data & Privacy” in the left sidebar and scroll down the page until you see the “Data from apps and services you use” section.

3. Go to “Apps and services” and click “Transfer data” under Photos.

4. Choose some albums of Google Photos if you do not want to move the entire Google Photos and click “Continue”.

5. Choose the Google account from which you want to transfer photos.

6. Select “Apple – iCloud Photos” as the transfer destination under “Move to”.

If you search Google Takeout and enter it directly instead of going to the Google Photos “Transfer data” section, you may only see the destinations as the local, Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and Box, and find that Google Takeout not showing iCloud.

Although you can use Google Takeout to move photos from Google Photos to iCloud Photos, there might be some photos and videos that cannot be transferred, and you have no access to know which ones are unable. If you repeat the Takeout process, there will be duplicates in your iCloud Photos, which may cost you much time to delete. Therefore, to avoid this troublesome situation, you can use another way to transfer Google Photos to iCloud Photos, such as using MultCloud, a free but professional cloud transfer service.

Best Workaround to Directly Transfer Google Photos to iCloud

MultCloud supports multiple cloud storage services, such as Google Photos, iCloud Photos, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Flickr, etc. If you only want to transfer Google Photos to Flickr, OneDrive, or iCloud Photo, MultCloud Cloud Transfer can be used as a wonderful alternative to Google Takeout.

MultCloud Cloud Transfer can also directly move photos from Google Photos to iCloud Photos without downloading and uploading. Besides, if there are some files that fail to be transferred to the destination, you can see which files cannot be transferred in the logs, and MultCloud will tell you the task is partially successful.

Moreover, MultCloud gives more options to customize your transfer task:

★MultCloud Options:

Transfer Options: You can choose how to deal with the repeated files, whether to delete the transferred files in the source, and other helpful options here.

Email: To get a notification email from MultCloud when the transfer task is done.

Filter: Filter the files you want to transfer or ignore with their file extensions.

Schedule: Auto-start the transfer task at another time or regularly start this task with a fixed frequency.

 

How to Transfer Google Photos to iCloud Photos

Step 1. Go to the MultCloud website and sign up for a free account.

Step 2. Add Google Photos to MultCloud by clicking “Add Cloud” and the Google Photos logo. Then, repeat the operations to add iCloud Photos. When you add iCloud Photos, you have to go through the two-factor authentication.

Step 3. Select the “Cloud Transfer” function in the left sidebar. Then, choose Google Photos as the source and iCloud Photos as the destination. Here you can also open “Options” to adjust the transfer settings.

Step 4. Tap the “Transfer Now” button to initiate the task.

Conclusion

If you find that Google Takeout not showing iCloud, it may be because you open Google Takeout in the wrong way. Take the above steps as a reference and use Google Takeout to iCloud again. Besides, you can try the MultCloud solution to transfer Google Photos to iCloud Photos since its transfer is also direct and can give you the logs to track the failed transfer.

Moreover, you can sync, backup, and restore files between Google and iCloud services through other MultCloud functions like Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, and Email Migration. The process will still be automatic and can help you save time and energy.