How to Move Google Photos to Amazon Photos

By Josep Mampel Marques, updated November 11, 2026

The way to move Google Photos to Amazon Photos is to export with Google Takeout, fix the dates in the files, and upload the result with the Amazon Photos website or desktop app. Google does not describe a one-click transfer to Amazon Photos on its help pages, so Takeout is the dependable route. Takeout keeps the date, place and caption in separate .json files, and nothing in the help pages says Amazon Photos reads them, so put that data back into the photos before uploading.

Step 1: export from Google

In Google Takeout, deselect everything except Google Photos and choose the zip type and a large archive size. Google says a larger export is split into several archives and that each can be downloaded 5 times within about 7 days. If the export fails, see Takeout not downloading. Full steps are in how to download Google Photos with Takeout.

Step 2: fix the photos

Google's Takeout help says extra metadata such as comments goes into a separate JSON file, and your OS may stamp downloaded photos with a new date while the original stays in the embedded metadata. Photos with no embedded date (screenshots, WhatsApp images) have nothing to fall back on.

1. Open PhotoFixer and choose every zip part at once.
2. Pick the time zone where most photos were taken, and the layout: "By year and month" or "Keep Takeout albums".
3. Press Fix my photos. It runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded. JPEGs without EXIF get the date, location and description, MP4 and MOV videos get a creation date, every file gets its capture time as the file date, and duplicate album copies are removed. HEIC is copied unchanged.
4. Unzip the result.

Step 3: upload to Amazon Photos

Amazon's help describes two ways to upload from a computer:

• Web. On the Amazon Photos website, use the Add icon at the top right and choose Upload photos or Upload folder.
• Desktop app. The desktop app can back up whole folders from Windows or Mac: under the Backup tab you add a folder (or an external drive) and set how often it runs and which file types to include.

For a large library the desktop app is the more comfortable choice, since you point it at the fixed folder and let it work in the background. Amazon's pages on storage allowances differ by country and by plan, so look at your own plan before uploading a library of many gigabytes: videos in particular may count differently from photos.

Which layout to choose

Without deduplication, a photo that lived in three Google albums arrives three times in Takeout. Background in duplicates and album folders explained.

What not to expect

• Video locations. PhotoFixer writes the creation date into videos, not GPS, so places on videos are not restored.
• Live and Motion Photos. The video half of a Motion Photo is not part of Google's direct transfer; in a Takeout, check a few of them yourself.
• Haste. Keep the Takeout zips and your Google library until you have opened a few photos from different years in Amazon Photos and compared them with the originals.