For “we’re-printing-a-book-with-baby-photos” reasons I’m currently forced* to use Google Photos to organize the photos we want included. And I’m baffled. I just assumed that since Google Photos has been around for so long it would be at least a couple of steps ahead of iCloud Photos Library.

But oh no. This service is clearly not built by people that care about photos. Or people. Or use cases. Or volume. Or curation. Organise albums in folders? Nope. Batch delete? Nope? Different types of views? Faces identification? It’s complicated for unknown reasons.

The only thing I’ve found that I was pleasantly surprised by was the ability to batch edit dates of a group of photos while keeping the time relative to each other. That’s quite neat. But that’s all.

It makes me truly appreciate iCloud Photo Library even more, how far it has come. I need to up my game to convert my Xbox loving, Windows hugging, Android swinging future wife to be to join me on this side.

*the only service we’ve found that supports the amount of pages we want is Optimalprint, which allows for Google Photos integration or direct file upload. However, if you want the book chronological, direct file upload doesn’t work since they will come into the order they are uploaded which is not sequentially, so it turns into a mess. And there’s no meta data, search or filtering, so you then have to re-arrange based purely on looking at them. That’s a no go. That leaves Google Photos.