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Because it's the benchmark that other photo app alternatives strive to be. It's a nightmare privacy wise, but Google built the best solution and a lot of iPhone users just assume Apple was the leader without trying anything else.

Thankfully there is immich which is working hard to duplicate the feature set without the privacy invasion.



Google Photos strips the metadata from your photos in unpredictable ways. It is a UX nightmare and an awful backup solution.


It’s dreadful in the UK. The face matching is on device and just doesn’t work. I can’t search by detected objects. It doesn’t integrate with iMessage for sending large batches of photos via iCloud.


> It's a nightmare privacy wise

Privacy and random cloud AI not looking at my photos is my #1 criteria when picking a cloud photo storage system




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