[zer0zzz]

One thing Google isn’t the best at is retaining metadata in the photo files for Google photos. Takeouts will just throw up a JSON with the meta data rather than put it in the exif portion. I’ve definitely found that Apple photos and iCloud retain this information much more consistently than googles takeout.

[Gigachad]

They also mangle live photos for some reason. When you export them, they become two files, one the photo, and one the 3 second video part.

[zer0zzz]

yeah, seriously. I am remembering that bit too. How horrible.

This, and the fact that Google Photo's web UI is a poor alternative to a good native photo manager is probably a large part of why I pretty much don't really bother with Google's ecosystem of apps and devices at all anymore.