I stopped using Google photos the moment it decided that it was time to start duplicating all my photos and then storing the duplicates in my iPhone library where they will be pushed to iCloud and from there to all my other machines.<p>I know that syncing is hard and I can totally see that it&#x27;s probably unwise to let both apple and Google have a go at the same time, but I would have hoped for this not to happen. Google Photos sharing features, search and their automated trip album builder are much better than apple&#x27;s, but apples sync keeps the pictures synced natively between all my devices which is a very useful thing to have.