Hi Phil Google Photos and iCloud Photos should be entirely separate collections, they don’t sync as far as I know.
If you have photos in your Photos app on a Mac, with iCloud Photos enabled, all your photos/albums/edits in that particular library are synced to the cloud. You can have a separate Photos library (hold alt when starting Photos to switch) which isn’t synced, but everything in the main “System” Photos library will sync with iCloud. I have no experience with Google Photos but iCloud Photos has never reorganised my library but both services do have automatically generated albums based on events or people identified in the photos. Perhaps the ordering has changed in your Google Photos app, is there an option somewhere to sort by date or event? _ Regards Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.com <http://www.macambulance.com/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 18 Jan 2024, at 20:09, 'Phil Tomlinson' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I expect everyone out there knows all about the problems of storing photos > already, but can you point me to a good source that will simply explain the > workings of Google Photos and its relationship with Apple Photos? > Over the last few months I have been horrified by the things that Google has > done to my photo collection. It started with little demonstrations of how > "clever" its robots were in making little musical video clips out of my > photos. It has progressed to completely re-ordering my photos and I fear also > deleting some!!! > I expect that I have contributed to my own downfall by using Google alongside > Apple Photos. I also have a collection of my photos (in "Photos"on my iMac) > which is now deliberately not connected to the Cloud for fear of manipulation > and incomprehensible rearrangement of my shots. > I have recently attempted to tidy up my iMac drive and my Cloud collections > in Apple and Google. I may have recklessly taken up the "offers" both > companies made to gain storage space and, in doing so, totally banjaxed my > collection. :( > > Phil > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/89b0a5ea-58cb-4dda-b97c-a1408ae1670bn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/89b0a5ea-58cb-4dda-b97c-a1408ae1670bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/3BE0506D-0759-4DEB-A33E-C8DFB993B879%40macambulance.com.
