Sharing our photos online has become a daily occurrence thanks to the likes of Facebook and Instagram, so how do the two mobile titans handle photo sharing?

Incidentally, Apple doesn’t save extra copies of your adjusted images, it just saves the adjustments you have made and applies them to the photo when you view it. And there is no fear that the cloud space will quickly fill up either – Google gives up unlimited space for your photos (more on that below). We were initially concerned that these extra versions of our images (kept in addition to the original) would quickly clog up our iPhone memory, but all these versions are saved in the cloud (which means you need a web connection to view them). These include GIFs, videos, collages and edits based on your photo library, and can be hit and miss, but we’ve also had some amazing GIFs and videos automatically generated for us. Google Photos hits back, however, with another impressive feature. Its analysis of your photos doesn’t only result in them being sorted into smart folders it will also suggest edits. Apple has one more trick up its sleeve: you can edit photos within the Photos app using third-party editing tools (such as those used in Camera Plus).

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