Importing
Bring your photos across from Google Photos, Apple Photos, iCloud or a folder on your computer.
Moving years of photos is a big job, so Magpie does most of it for you. Your exports are read right in your browser, nothing needs unzipping, and each photo keeps the date, place and details its old home knew about.
Start with Which import should I use? if you’re not sure where to begin.
- Which import should I use? Pick the right way to bring your photos in, depending on where they live today.
- Pick photos from Google Photos Choose a few photos and videos in Google's own picker and have them copied into your library within minutes.
- Import from Google Photos with Google Takeout Export your Google Photos library with Google Takeout and bring all of it, with its details, into your library.
- Import photos from Google Drive Export your Google Drive with Google Takeout and bring in the photos and videos, with the folder each one was in.
- Import a folder from your computer Choose a folder of photos and videos and keep its subfolders as Folders.
- Import an Apple Photos export from your Mac Export unmodified originals with XMP files from Photos on your Mac, then bring the folder into your library.
- Import an iCloud Photos data copy Request a copy of your iCloud Photos from Apple, then bring the archives, with albums and favorites, into your library.
- Follow an import while it runs What the progress screen shows, how to pause and resume, and what happens if you close the tab.
- Duplicates, skipped and failed files How an import handles photos you already have, files it leaves out on purpose, and files that don't make it.
- If an import goes wrong Fixes for the messages you might see while choosing, reading or uploading an import.