Download all your Google Photos with Google Takeout

Steps

1. Go to takeout.google.com and sign in.
2. Click Deselect all, then tick only Google Photos. (Optional: “All photo albums included” lets you pick specific albums/years.)
3. Next step: delivery by download link, Export once, file type .zip, size per file – choose 50 GB for fewer parts if your disk and connection can handle it, or 2–10 GB for easier downloads.
4. Create export. Google emails you when it's ready (hours to days for large libraries).
5. Download every part before the links expire (the email and Takeout page show the date).

What you get

• Folders per album and per year (“Photos from 2019”) – the same photo can appear in both.
• For most photos a .json file with the real date, GPS and description. Many files (screenshots, downloads, edited copies, some videos) don't carry these in their own metadata – that's why dates look wrong after import into another app.
• Live/motion photos split into an image and a video file.

Next steps

Don't import the raw folders into another app yet. Run the export through Rollmend first: it matches each file with its JSON, writes the dates and places into the files, removes album duplicates and gives you a year/month folder ready for iCloud, Immich, a NAS or an external drive. You can select all zip parts at once without extracting them.