While your uploaded photos are safe, all smartphone photos synced to the app in the background will be permanenetly deleted.
Not satisfied with shifting it’s messaging feature on smartphones to a standalone app, Facebook is now pushing users to install another additional app.
The social network has threatened to delete thousands of photos stored online, if users don’t install their Moments app. To clarify, all of your photos uploaded on Facebook are completely safe. The photos in question ready for the trash can are auto-synced photos from your smartphone’s photo album.
Back in 2012, Facebook’s smartphone app had a feature to enable automatically syncing the phone’s local album to private one online. The photos could be synced purely for storage, yet easily accessible for whenever the owner decided to share them on Facebook.
Later in June 2015, that feature was disabled in the core app, in favour of adding it to a new app, Moments. It used the same face-recognition software in Facebook’s photo tagging feature, to organise your local photos based on which of your friends is in them. Then, with the tap of a button, everyone in the group could share photos with the others, certainly a lot easier than manually transferring photos to each contact over WhatsApp for instance.
When Facebook disabled the auto sync feature, it made it known that users who didn’t want to shift to Moments, could download their previously synced photos in a zip file. The reason for that is now clear, as Facebook has said it will delete all those privately synced photos if users don’t switch to Moments. As spotted by TechCrunch, users with the feature enabled are now receiving this ultimatum email:
Deplorable tactic or not, Facebook obviously has full monopoly over the workings of its social network. So if you’ve ever used the auto-sync feature in the past, you have until July 7 to download all your photos before they’re gone forever.
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