Apple and Google, both members of the Data Transfer Initiative, recently announced a new tool that enables users to easily transfer photos from Google Photos to iCloud.

The announcement, posted on the Data Transfer Initiative’s blog, reads in-part:

Beginning today, Apple and Google are expanding on their direct data transfer offerings to allow users of Google Photos to transfer their collections directly to iCloud Photos. This complements and completes the existing transfers that were first made possible from iCloud Photos to Google Photos and fulfills a core Data Transfer Initiative (DTI) principle of reciprocity. The offering from Apple and Google will be rolling out over the next week and is the newest tool powered by the open source Data Transfer Project (DTP) technology stack, joining existing direct portability tools available to billions of people today offered by DTI and its founding partners Apple, Google, and Meta.

This is definitely a useful feature for those who may want to have copies of their photos spread across multiple services, as well as for those who are looking to completely switch from one service to another.