Facebook has announced the global availability of an exciting new feature to save our memories. From today, it is possible make direct transfer of videos and photos from Mark Zuckerberg's platform to Google Photos. No fear, therefore, of losing some memories if we wanted to delete our account or if the social network should no longer be available in a hypothetical future.
The option is already available in . To activate it, you will need to perform a few steps. Starting from the settings, you must then go to the section dedicated to "Your Facebook information" and select "Transfer a copy of your photos and videos". At this point, for security reasons, the account password will be requested.
Today, we are reaching 100% rollout of our photo and video transfer tool that enables people to port their photos directly to Google Photos.
With this rollout, the tool is now available globally to everyone on Facebook: https://t.co/1pck8PQoEe https://t.co/WBCeJGmMwp pic.twitter.com/IvHSgXNpbl
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Once this step is completed, you will choose the destination, that is the service to which to transfer the multimedia contents (currently, only Google Photos), and whether to transfer photos or videos. It is not possible to choose both. At this point, you will have to log in to Google Photos with your credentials. After having granted the relative permissions, you will be redirected to Facebook where you will have to confirm the transfer which will start automatically. You will receive a notification and an email upon completion. It is obviously possible to interrupt the transfer always in the same section.
As for privacy, Facebook claims that the transferred data is protected by encryption. In the future, the same function may also support other services other than Google Photos.
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