Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Johnny555 1061 days ago
Not sure why you got downvoted, it’s purposely hard to switch ecosystems, I’m in the middle of switching from android to IOS, but still have over a decade of data in gmail, google photos, and google drive. And I waited until my wife was willing/ready to switch because it’s harder to share across ecosystems. Fortunately we don’t own many apps (mostly things with external subscriptions like news, streaming media, etc) so purchasing replacement apps wasn’t painful.
2 comments
scarface_74 1061 days ago
> still have over a decade of data in gmail, google photos, and google drive

And apps are available for iOS that let you access all of them. If you install Google Drive on the iPhone, your drive shows up along side iCloud in the Files app and open/save file dialoga

link
Johnny555 1061 days ago
Yes that’s what I’m doing for now, but I left android because I didn’t like sharing so much data with google, now I’m still sharing that data with google, and now apple too.
link
scarface_74 1061 days ago
Google Drive to iCloud Drive:

Do just the opposite of this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803905

I’m sure there are ways to migrate your email. Thunderbird?

link
FirmwareBurner 1061 days ago
>Not sure why you got downvoted

Fanboys don't like you pointing out the hard to swallow truth pills. They expect comments to validate their lifestyle choice, not contradict them. Any contraction is a direct offense to them.

> I’m in the middle of switching from android to IOS

At least for you it's easy, because all google apps exist for iOS, but switching away from iOS is absolutely impossible as there is no iCloud or iMessage for Android, so all your data remains hostage with Apple if you try to move.

link
scarface_74 1061 days ago
> At least for you it's easy, because all google apps exist for iOS, but switching away from iOS is absolutely impossible as there is no iCloud

1. Download Google Drive for iOS

2. Go to the Files App

3. Select all in your iCloud Drive

4. Copy

5. Go to your Google Drive in the Files app

6. Paste

Just like you would copy files from one drive to another.

link
pjerem 1060 days ago
There is a web version of iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos.

They are not "great" but they are more than enough to download a zip with all your files and all your photos. From there you go where you want.

link