First time viewer here. Here are my concerns with your review. I believe the main purpose of using a back up is incase we lose our photos locally. Computer crash, home fire, lost phone, etc. What I didn’t hear you address was how easy it was to retrieve our photos from Amazon and Google? Or if Google/Amazon raised their prices and we needed to move to another provider? How does each store our files? Do they maintain our file structure? Keep our file names and data for our photos? Those are important questions we need to know when picking back-up service provider.

@tamarunitamaruni4724

Жыл бұрын

he did an incredible overview. it may take another search to get those... but he provided data that you're NOT gonna see from the providers, i.e., the drawbacks. it's such a dense area to learn from the bottom up in one video

@jeffk9845

Жыл бұрын

It really depends on what you want. I don't think he was talking about straight file backup, but a service to manage your photos so you can search and find the ones you want. I use Google photos and it sorts them by date and doesn't have a file structure. You could keep the file structure if you used Google Drive instead of Google Photos.

@ImeldaFagin

10 ай бұрын

And it did end up that Google now charges

My wife scraps with these photos. In Amazon it allows you to look at your photos and then very quickly print and if you're a prime member for a cheaper price than Costco that will be sent to you free and the pictures will be delivered to you free that is a big advantage that Amazon has.

@dottotech

3 жыл бұрын

Great tip! Thank you for sharing!

The main thing I use Amazon Drive for is displaying my photo's and video's on my big screen HDTV. If you have a Fire Stick, it has a PHOTO app that automatically connects to your Amazon Drive photo's and video's. This makes it great to bore the life out of your guests just like you did in the olden days of slide shows and home movies.

@pamparker1860

2 жыл бұрын

Can I decide which photos show on my fire TV screen or are they random. What happens when I decide to delete a photo purposely? Will it still show up in Amazon photos and fire tv?

@vickykent353

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@cuejbs

2 жыл бұрын

@@pamparker1860 You can choose random or date up loaded. If you delete a photo it will no longer show up on Fire TV. It is placed in a deleted folder on Amazon photo's for 30 days in case you change your mind.

My biggest issue with Amazon Photos is that it does not allow you to tell the app when the facial recognition is wrong... it has been proven that Amazon’s facial recognition fails people of color and often confuses different people for being the same person. I have tons of photos on Amazon where facial recognition has identified the wrong friend and I have no way to tell the app this and organize the photos correctly. I’m interested in testing out Google to see if I experience the same issues there.

FYI... Amazon Photo (prime) does offer PAID video upload and storage. (with unlimited resolution) While I was on vacation in Philippines I needed a safe storage place for my videos as well as my photos. I opted to pay $60 for a year for 1 TB of storage. Other than slow internet to upload them, I was able to upload my videos, and it made me feel safe knowing that for $60 my precious videos were backed up. BUT, that being said. I did not know my Google account would also store videos! I shoot mostly in 4K. But I do also have a 360 camera that shoots in 5.7K. so for me, I think Amazon is the better choice. (for now) As always Steve, thanks for the Vlog!

I have been following you for years and you have always been my GOTO source. I don't know if anyone thanks you, so I thank you immensely for all the years of your help!

As of December 2020 ** Newsflash** that may affect some of the great advice here, I imagine: Google will, as of June 2021 be including photos uploaded AFTER that date in the 15gb free storage provided. That means Google is no longer unlimited, even considering their 16mp limitation. This is a game changer (in the negative sense) for me. So I started looking at Amazon's unlimited photos and realized why it was that I never jumped on that bandwagon before. That is, there is no application for Macs running Mac OS X versions earlier than 10.12, which locks me out. Sad, because the computer I use is still the most powerful computer I have every owned, and meets every need for me, but it is slowly becoming obsolete simply because certain software houses simply stop including 10.11 capabilities, no matter how meager they might be.

Thank you so much for picking a winner and explaining the rationale behind it for your specific use case. That is something a lot of reviewers don't do. They shy away from calling a winner just say it's a TIE!!! This is fantastic review of the two major apps! Not sure which I am going to go with but thanks to your video I got a great place to start. Thanks for posting such quality content!

Steve, you are awesome. This videos shows your professionalism as a researcher and instructor as you explain critical topics such as photo quality, privacy and video settings. Thank you for your interest and effort to share with us all!

@MAGAMAN

3 жыл бұрын

You have no privacy on either of these communist platforms.

I'm a beginner. Which App will find photos on my computer and add to the photo storage?

Steve. Really enjoy your clear explanations! Anytime you want to delve deeper into amazon drive vs amazon photo i would love that. I also struggle with syncing and backing up. When is it safe to delete images from your computer so they stay put on the cloud?

The thing we need to learn about is where to backup raw image files. This is not to view files online but simply as a way that if the raw files on your local computer becomes corrupted you have a method of recovering these files and saving your photography business. If you are not aware already raw files are humongous. Is Amazon S3 Glacier what we should be looking at?

Hey!! This guy still exists??! I used to watch this guy, feels like 10yrs ago. Glad to see him still at it 👍🏾

I use both in addition to iCloud Photos! I love Google Photos for Autoawesomes that I wouldn't have without it, and I use Amazon Photos as another backup and as I have an iPhone, everything gets backed up to that as well. I don't take professional photos, but I take a LOT of photos (read: I took 304 photos of my dog the other day), so I like to have backups!

@dottotech

4 жыл бұрын

That is a lot of Dog pics!

@esmecrutchley7983

4 жыл бұрын

@@dottotech Yes, it really is! Every now and then I think I might have a problem, then they do something cute and I take another 50! I've resigned myself to it now!

@charlenewilson1024

4 жыл бұрын

the dont retrieve iphoto picturesfom my upgrade as i lost wedding pics and picts og my deceased hubby

What if you have say 10,000 photos in your Amazon photo app and then you cancel your Amazon prime account. Do you loose all 10,000 pictures?

Steve thanks for this video. Question: was just fooling around with the automated slide shows that Amazon puts together and offers you. Pretty cool, you can edit the selected photos and little else best I can tell. Still, could be useable for social media. Do you know of any way to export that little slideshow video out of Amazon photos and into say Instagram reels? (or even Stories or a regular IG post?) Any help greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much for the video. Very straight forward and clarifying! I'll go with Google too!

Very thorough comparison. Found this helpful. I will be uploading RAW files, so the unlimited photo size aspect with Amazon is the determining factor.

Thank you for this comparison. 2 years old but still very relevant.

Good video! Been using Google photos, but from the video I'm encouraged to also use Amazon for redundancy, even though I have a cloud and local backup. Does either have duplicate detection & removal? Is it possible to rename the photos individually & in batch? Does either populate metadata like EXIF that will convey to other applications? BTW, at 12:55 "...for it's convenience." should be "...for its convenience."

Great presentation. One question though... When you imported your Google photos to Amazon, the person identification was done from scratch by the Amazon app, or it read the metadata/info from Google photos?

Thank you, appreciate your comparison. Currently looking at a few alternatives. Personally I'm steering away from the whole Google platform due to privacy concerns. Currently looking at PCloud as an alternative as well. I do appreciate your thoughts here though.

Thanks Steve. Storing videos will be priority for me. So I think Google Photos would be my choice. And it fits into my Google ecosystem.

Thanks for the video. I didn’t recall you saying anything about syncing. If I delete a photo on my iPhone is it deleted in Google Photos or Amazon photos automatically?

dottotech: You should cover the ease of leaving both services, exporting all your data, purging that data from the service and closing your account. This will become necessary for most users at least once because of email account hacking and service changes.

Thanks so much for all the great information!!!

@dottotech

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Hi Steve, could you talk about Flickr and compare it with both Amazon Photos and Google Photos?. Thank you in advance :)

Great video and I am an old fan from the Evernote videos (I were a Evernote user). So, I had a great disappointing when I migrated from Apple Photos to Google Photos by the Google drive loader. Caused a Mess on my photos, all albuns were ignored and imported as a the Apple Camera Roll without any album organization. Maybe Apple fault to keep a shutdown door to its Apple Photos application. So do you know if Amazon photos application (on Mac) imports photos from Apple Photos in a album organized way as it is ?

Google Photos limits video “quality” to a certain degree where Amazon Photos doesn’t, but does limit storage to 5GB.

I use both services, but I use Amazon Photos as my cloud storage for all my photos I take with my DSLR camera. I have about 120 GB of photos in RAW format stored on Amazon Photos. The only thing is that from my smartphone I can't seem to open full screen my RAW format photos. I can see them as thumbnails but when I try to open one of them it says that something went wrong. Any idea? The thing about the mpx limit on google photos I didn't know about I don't really like. I would like to store automatically on amazon photos instead of google photos. I'll look at the IFTTT app if there's something with amazon photos. Any other ideas about that? anyone?

thanks again for another great video. for me, I use both. They're both so user-friendly and fast that I like having both just in case something happens to the other but mostly just because I like to see what each format does with the collection. If I had to pick one, it's definitely Amazon. I pay for Amazon Prime anyway and an additional $20 year means I'm covered with all photos and videos. My only small beef with Amazon is that when I create an album and add photos/videos to the album, I'd like for the photos or videos to be removed from the main storage. Also, I don't like how deleting the images from the main area means it is also deleted from the album.

Thank you, Steve. As always, I appreciate your clear, succinct, light hearted presentations. As far as photo apps goes, I am an amateur so I will stick with Google photos. Thanks again for a helpful, informative, presentation.

@kyralawrence4662

3 жыл бұрын

I have a note 10. Hate Gallery. Have been using Google Photos but when their app was upgraded the editing tools lost many of their 'easy editing tools. I have now started using Amazon photos? PROBLEM: I cannot set Amazon as default . When I want to add an older photo to FB, Instagram, Mercar, Gallery comes up making only a fraction of my photos and only 4 of my photo albums (folders). At this point I can find no way to get to neither, Google nor Amazon. Can you help me? Or connect me to someone who can?

Its true about the photo editing features. I always end up keeping the Samsung's Gallery app for editing pictures as it offers a lot more than the Google's photo app.

LOVE your intro

Wonderful review! Thank you Steve for this clear explanation. 👌🏾 I guess that a couple features have been released since this video...I look forward to your update in 2024. 😉

Nice comparaison. Do you know how they compare about EXIF informations (Geotag, etc.) ?

Which site is better for embedding images on website or message board

Great video Steve I thought Goole photos work much better I still back up the pictures on another hard drive .

Amazon Photos do also work in Norway! I have used it in some years here in Norway!

If I already have an Amazon Prime account, why not use both? Am I missing something? One other question is what happens if I no longer want an Amazon Prime account? Can I choose to get a backpack drive and just back up from Amazon?

THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE IMO FOR ORGANIZATION IS THAT AMAZON PHOTO'S SEPERATE YOUR "CAMERA" "CUSTOM FOLDER" AND "SCREENSHOT." Google does NOT do this and instead puts all screenshots in "Camera" and you have to create a custom album to move sets of photos into.

What about sharing albums between several people for dropping all the pictures from different phones and desktops to share for example trip photos or a party photos??

I use both. Here in the UK we don’t have facial recognition with Google, but Amazon Photos does, however, it’s not very accurate and there is no way to make amendments. For instance, it mixes up my Grandson & Granddaughter. There are a lot of comments/complaints about this on the Amazon user forum. My favourite feature with Amazon is how it regularly displays photos from ‘This Day’ in previous years.

@tonym3933

4 жыл бұрын

I'm in the UK and have been using Google Photos for many years now, it does have facial recognition and it's not a new feature, so perhaps you have the option disabled? In terms of mixing up photos - I'm not sure about Amazon - but on Google, you can tell it when it's incorrectly identified someone, and correct it quite easily. The more times you do this, the better it gets at future photos.

I have been using both. I like Amazon a little better. For me Amazon seems easier to use. Both are good. I like them both.

@tripslover7711

4 жыл бұрын

David Santos amazon free sane google photo ?

@davesaints8023

4 жыл бұрын

ouen sonyrot I find Amazon easier to download photos onto a computer. I put my photos on an external hard drive after a year for safe keeping. Both are easy to use. It comes down to personal preference 😊

Thank you for your videos. I have a question. I own a iPhone X and want to stop paying for iCloud. Can one of these apps be the answer? Please explain as I have both Google photos and iCloud and use both. However my phone tells me when it needs to back up and doesn't have enough space. I already pay for the 200mb a month and started paying this month for the 2tb a month at $9.99. I really prefer. It to pay that much if that's possible. Please share your thoughts and expertise? Thank you.

Going to stay with Google. Thanks for all the tech info you offer!

Hi I need to be able to move photos left to right up and down within a folder what would be the best for me???? I loved iPhoto...please advise

Thank you for this video! Question: Can I link Google photos with Amazon photos so that when I delete a picture from one, it will automatically be deleted from the other?

Hi Steve - like you i'm embedded in the google ecosystem. So good to know I'm not missing out ! :-)

@MAGAMAN

3 жыл бұрын

You are missing out on the biggest thing there is. Privacy. You have ZERO privacy with google, even if you pay for it.

I have a question sir. Both service could be used for image hosting?

Hello Steve, thank you for this video, they are always very informative. Could you tell me what software you use to display your mobile phone on your screen. Thank you in advance. Good continuation and see you soon.

@dottotech

4 жыл бұрын

I use Screenflow to edit my videos, but you can record the iPhone screen rith within iOS

@fiac

4 жыл бұрын

​@@dottotech Hi, thank you very much for your answer. I'm on Androïd, but i found it. Thanks again.

Can Amazon and Google photos coexist? Any problems with that? I love Google Photos but like the ability to have another backup source. Thanks.

Hi Steve, i am in UK. is there an option to restrict the auto upload to a particular folder on phone(android). i dont want all the garbage to get uploaded - like i dont want to back up every single whatsapp screenshots on various groups. in the settings, i kept 'checked' few folders, but i see that the upload is happening from other folders too.....let me know if you have info on this... .. thanks for any suggestions

Neither are the best but, I use both for different reasons. Thanks for the Mr. Steve very informative and enjoyed the video.

Steve, thanks for the review. I really liked it. Is there a way to PREVENT Google Photos from deleting photos as an "in sync" process when I delete a photo from my iPhone? Is there a setting we have been missing? Explanation. My wife and I just moved from Google photos to Amazon photos for our cloud storage because as we deleted photos from our iPhones (to create more space), the photos also were deleted from our Google Photos but NOT from Amazon photos. (Grandbaby photos...had my wife not earlier installed the Amazon Photos, there may have been some significant weeping and wailing.) Appreciate your thoughts. Thanks. Bryan

Can you do a video on both these services/applications in terms of 'family sharing'? I have tried both services for the purpose of sharing photos with the entire family and in my experience they both fail. Main reason is both treat the service as one main user and everyone else. The service should reflect the need, one vault that everyone has access, can upload, edit, etc. full access. thx!

Hi Steve, great info. Any ideas now that Google Photos will be charging for storage in 2021? Any any tips or suggestions for the enthusiast photography on editing apps or software Thanks

@dottotech

3 жыл бұрын

Good question! We might have an episode for that.

You should throw OneDrive in the comparison...

I just found out about Amazon photos and uploaded a bunch from my phone yesterday! It's pretty convenient!!!

@dottotech

2 жыл бұрын

It is.

If I use one of these services can I free up storage space on my iPhone and how do I do it?

Using both right now

Amazing video! thanks

@dottotech

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Great video... As always... Amazon is my pick because I take everything in raw. Now, it is under 16G, but the next camera I buy will almost certainly have raw in excess of 16G. One question, why have you not done a review of free, or relatively inexpensive, photo editing software? Lightroom is $10 a month for the rest of your life... I do not mind spending $100+ and then using that software for the next 5 or 10 years. But, $1,200 for 10 years is pricy... Also, it looks like Win 10 Photo App does more editing than either Amazon or Google. I would encourage you to add that one next time you do this comparison.

Hello, do Amazon Photos keep the Apple "live photos" format? Thanks

I agree that google is better but have seen few updates to Amazon photo in your video so I will give it another try! One question, base on my past experience, I do a clean install of windows once a year on my machine, I have noticed that none would recognized they have my pictures and they want to uploads all the pictures again, is this still the case or it is getting better?

Steve, I recently purchased a new android tv, and I now have found that after connecting it to my computer, I no longer have the option of viewing the Amazon Photo app from the new tv. The older tv had the "photo" option in the onscreen menu, but it's not there with the android tv. Is there a way to install this app in the new tv? Or do I have to use some other app instead?

That is all good. but need to attach a jpeg photo to E mail for warranty work. Have to use a stand alone camera remove sd card insert into Pc. and drag and drop as attachment. can you do this with amazon photos?

Amazon photo is also available in the Netherlands

Do you know if both my husband and myself can both load our photos from our phones to our Amazon prime photo account?

@heathermacneil3074

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can. Thru the amazon photo app and set it to automatically download all photos on your phone.

Steve, I’m an Amazon prime subscriber and recently started using Amazon photos. I have a new iPad Pro and Apple phone. Unfortunately I also have a windows computer with many folders and external drives that have a bunch of photos. I would like to consolidate, remove duplicates, and back up all the photos. And of course maybe organize. What are your thoughts on a path forward please, I need help.

Is there a way of retaining the geotagging ( shown on iPhone photos ) in Amazon photos app ??I’ve just uploaded photos to free up space on my phone/iCloud but just noticed that the location isn’t visible when viewing in the Amazon app. Does google photo storage show this ??( I’ve not used it at all). Thanks

I use both.

Steve bedankt voor de nodige uitleg en mijn voorkeur gaat ook naar google foto's en ook om zelfde reden dat het gemakkelijk werken is met de andere google tools...op naar de volgende tips die je ons kunt bijleren...doe zo verder.

@dottotech

4 жыл бұрын

Ik ben blij dat je de video leuk vond, bedankt.

@patrickdepauw9343

4 жыл бұрын

@@dottotech En ik ben blij steeds iets bij te leren van jou, bedankt hiervoor Steve

Does Amazon photos have a map view of where the pictures were taken?

Hey @dottotech can you update this now Google photos have annoyingly separated it from Drive?

Hey - fun to watch your videos! I've tried logging into Amazon with four different browsers (2 on PC, 2 on Mac). The People and Things options do not show in my left bar. Did Amazon get rid of this feature? I can't imagine why they would have . . . unless to stop scaring people with the AI! : )

Thanks for posting this great overview. I use both Amazon photos and Google Photos right now and now that Google has announced future costs am thinking of how to migrate or remove photos from Google. I wonder how difficult that will be? How much advantages to using Amazon Photos over Microsoft Photos or other Windows PC applications.

@dottotech

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your suggestion. We're working on doing an episode for that as it's the most common request these days. I appreciate you for bringing that up.

I. Do digital abstract and surreal art with my devices and some of my art will be stacked layers of my different photos .I find myself lost as to how to gain space on my devices b/c if I delete a photo that I've used as part of a stacked or a photo that was used in a video then google may remove it from my video or piece of art and ruin what work went into it. ,How do I stop this problem or better understand it if I am incorrect?

I am living in Norway & I am using Google photos & Amazon photos & I am using Amazon photos for free!

Thank you for all informations, still have one question, If I want to import from my Mac Photos, I had a lot of infos on the pictures (key words, title, and most importantly the automatic geotag !!!) What is happening to all of this infos ?

@dottotech

3 жыл бұрын

This will help: support.apple.com/en-lb/guide/photos/pht6d60d10f/mac

Amazon lets me take advantage of the RAW capabilities of my phone. I can store my RAWS and then download them to edit on my desktop at home in Lightroom and Photoshop.

The Amazon photo app - does it have file folder organisation??

So what are you doing with fishbase?

Oh Noooo, Mr. Billlllllll! Sorry, I had to say it. I currently use Google photos and have over 58,000 photos on there. I was just informed that in June I will have to start paying for my cloud storage. I am upset because when I started using Google photos, they stated it was free unlimited. They lied like my daddy. So now I have to think about using a different storage, but I wanted to keep everything in one place. 1. Should I or even could I transfer everything I have from Google photos over to Amazon since I have Prime anyway? 2. Or should I stop syncing google photos in May and just start my photos new to sync onto Amazon starting June 2021? 3. If I start using Amazon to sync photos, can I keep the old google photos cloud or would it go away if I no longer use it?

Hi Steve, enjoyed your video, I was interested in Amazon Photo and have just become a prime member on Amazon. So I signed up with my phone. The immediately dumped all of my jpegs to my account. So I now have all of my album cover and all other jpegs on the phone on Amazon. This is what used to happen back in the 90s when I tried using photo management software. I expected the software to ask which directory to sync and upload from, it did not. now I have a major mess . is there a way to fix this without deleting the Amazon account and starting over. and how would I prevent this issue again?

@dottotech

4 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure what the best course of action is other than to say I know Amazon has very good technical support, I would just reach out to them

Hi Steve... Do you have a video or is there a method on eliminating duplicates on both platforms? I have a ton! No idea how that happens and it consumes a lot of storage space.

@rastasparkles8320

11 ай бұрын

Hello, Did you figure this out? I'm still struggling with this.

Ugh! Google photos is now charging ... would love to see your thoughts now

So if I am using Amazon photos and I don't renew my Prime and do not pay for Amazon photo service; then do I lose all my photos. Would it be too confusing to use both, and if using both google & Amazon, does it or will that take up my phone memory if stored to cloud?

I have larger resolution photos. Amazon it is. Thank you

your videos are very good far from perfect but still really goooodddd😁

I am surprised that the two photos apps, Google and Amazon, that I have do not contain the same photos. Why are some photos stored in one but not the other?

Amazon photos is good and It's unlimited but the Video part for 5 GB even if You have amazon prime is Really bad.

Amazon turned off face recognition for Illinois residents and I am frustrated with losing this feature inspite of having a paid Amazon photos subscription.

sense these are for more storage, organization, and sharing, I'd love to see a comparison of these with apple's solution.

@janeleekeller

4 жыл бұрын

SB ; "Apple" has a Solution to Something ❓ In Future, Please Elaborate 🙂. Thank You ! JL 🕊️

@ShawnButts

4 жыл бұрын

@@janeleekeller iCloud and apple photos

@janeleekeller

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShawnButts ; Thank You Shawn 🙂. JL 🕊️ PS, I "was" under the impression, That's also Google's "Solution" !

Your show is amazing and far from perfect

@dottotech

4 жыл бұрын

Love it! So true!

Some people have mentioned Amazon photos difficult to organize in folders

do you upload to both services? if so can you upload to both at the same time? i like having my photos backed up in more than one place.

Steve, Can you use both at the same time?

Steve, I need help with Google photos. All of my pictures have backed up, but none of my extremely small video’s, the 1-2 min. video’s, will backup. I love watching your video’s on everything concerning google photos, but Google Photos will not backup my videos. PS. I just installed my amazon firestick and was considering backing up my photos/video’s to amazon if I can’t back everything up to google. Would really appreciate your help

what a difference 2 years make. ii would put a header on this that Google will no longer upload photos.