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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by climb_stealth on Monday January 16, 2023 @08:40PM (#34408137)
Doesn't the takeout strip the metadata from the photos? Things like the location data. I vaguely remember looking into this in the past and from what I remember there was no good way around it.

I haven't seen any alternatives to Google Photos either. Ente might be most promising, but their iOS app is not great at actually automatically uploading photos.

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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by Gigachad on Monday January 16, 2023 @08:42PM (#34408150)
Google Takeout dumps the files exactly how they were uploaded without any modifications. It then provides it's own info/metadata as a json file with the same name.

There are some situations where you may have entered geolocation data on the app/website and this will end up in the json file rather than embedded in the image file metadata. It's up to you to work out how you want to merge this back in.

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Re:How my brother's iCloud account was stolen by climb_stealth on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:12AM (#34409378)
That is good to know, thanks! I might be misremembering it. It has been a while since I looked at it.
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