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TL;DR School-issued Google accounts are getting the option to transfer Google Photos libraries to personal accounts.
The Photos transfers will go through Google Takeout Transfer, along with Gmail and Drive data.
Photos transfers will be available starting in May.
Google is making a big improvement to student accounts. Later this spring, Google’s Takeout Transfer tool will allow students with school-issued accounts to migrate pictures stored in Google Photos to a personal account, making it easier to transition out of .edu school accounts.
The change was detailed today in a blog post highlighting a number of education-related announcements. Takeout Transfer already lets users on school accounts bulk-transfer files from Google Drive and email from Gmail to a non-school personal account with just a few clicks. Starting soon, that tool will include a Google Photos toggle.
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Google Takeout is a tool that lets you export data — emails, photos, calendar events, browser bookmarks, the works — from your Google account. Google Takeout Transfer serves a similar purpose, but rather than letting users download their own data in bulk, it’s tailor-made for users on university-issued accounts to transfer their data from those school Google accounts to personal ones.
There were already ways to move your photos from your .edu account to a personal one; you could download the photos from one account and re-upload them to another, for example, or share them manually inside Google Photos. The new method is a lot quicker, though, being just a couple of clicks.
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