Moving photos from Android to iCloud

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MrAlfisti Author

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Moving photos from Android to iCloud

Hi all,

I'm in a pickle! I'm wanting to move the Mrs from an android phone to an iPhone.

She already has an iCloud account as she has an iPad. She has no Computer/Laptop.

Moving contacts and stuff to the iphone is of course fairly simple by Setting up her Google mail account on the iPhone.

However - how can i get her 30+GB of Pictures moved into iCloud??

Her iphone will be a 16gb Version - i have the same, have 40+GB of photos in icloud and have had no Problems with available Memory on the phone.

I have a macbook, but I don't want to pollute my iphoto library with her photos and vice versa.

Any suggestions as to how Pictures from her android phone can be loaded up to icloud, so that as soon as she starts using an iphone, they're all there ready to browse????

thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Late '12 model

Posted on Dec 1, 2015 2:06 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 1, 2015 6:11 AM in response to MrAlfisti

You don't need to do this through iPhoto, it can be done over a web interface at iCloud.com

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MrAlfisti Author

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Dec 1, 2015 6:27 AM in response to Winston Churchill

So, copy her pictures into a folder on my desktop, log in to iCloud in safari and upload from there? Did realise that would be possible.

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Answer 3

Dec 1, 2015 6:42 AM in response to MrAlfisti

Yes, that's about it. Not as straightforward as using Photos but it saves all that swapping of system libraries and accounts and has a much lesser chance of photos being mixed up. An alternative would be to create a user account on your Mac for her, this also would eliminate most of the likelihood of mixing photos up.

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