iCloud Photos taking up double space vs Google Photos

Hi, Ive recently switched over to using icloud photos from Google Photos.


I have 24,553 photos and 1948 videos


This took up 78GB on google photos storgage and after uploading to icloud the same takes up 163GB.


Has anyone run into this issue? iCloud is taking up double the space compared to what google photos was doing.

Posted on Sep 25, 2023 12:15 PM

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Posted on Jun 13, 2024 06:37 AM

Yes, I have observed the same. I recently moved to iCloud and it's taking double size compared to Google photos and Cloud.

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Sep 25, 2023 12:46 PM in response to yuriy298

yuriy298 wrote:

Hi, Ive recently switched over to using icloud photos from Google Photos.

I have 24,553 photos and 1948 videos

This took up 78GB on google photos storgage and after uploading to icloud the same takes up 163GB.

Has anyone run into this issue? iCloud is taking up double the space compared to what google photos was doing.

Well, you can use more icloud storage, if you back up or synced other data to icloud.

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