If you use this popular phone, you can lose all your photos next month
This company changes how users store their photos on September 30 and you could see yours disappearing.
Whether you go two weeks ago two weeks ago, your phone probably holds hundreds or even thousands of photos before it. After all, around85% of all photos are now taken on our phones, according to InfoTrends. Summer holiday photos with friends at holiday portraits spent with loved ones, your photos are probably some of your most valuable assets. But if you are someone who leaves these precious souvenirs stored only on your phone, you could soon have problems. One of the largest telephony companies has changed the way its data is stored and this could mean that your photos will be permanently removed at the end of next month. Read it to find out if you need to save your photos now or lose them.
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Samsung gets rid of the storage of photos on the Samsung cloud.
Samsung no longer authorizes its smartphone users to back uptheir photo gallery Samsung cloud soon,Strongreported. The company encourages customers to safeguard their photos instead of the OneDrive Microsoft Service.
As Samsung says on its website regarding change, "Synchronization of the gallery and drive storage for my files will no longer be supported by Samsung Cloud and your data will be deleted" by one of the two cutting dates future. Samsung users in Group 1 must download and move photos backed up on the Samsung cloud before September 30, while Group 2 customers have until November 30.
TheGroups are determined by which country You have selected when you registered for your Samsung account. If you have chosen the United States, you are probably in group 1, butStrong Stresses that this can be the surest to download your photos before the September deadline since Samsung says: "These features can end and your data can be removed prematurely before the official end date."
If you do not save your photos and videos, they will be deleted permanently.
Whether you move your photos or not your photos, all images and videos stored on the Samsung cloud will be removed, "probably in an offer to reduce storage costs",Strong said. Samsung says that the photos of a user will definitely be deleted from the cloud 60 days after downloading their data or a deadline, according to the first possibility.
Samsung is also warning customers not to wait until the last minute to download their photos, either. "When it comes closer to the final depreciation date, you may not be able to download your data smoothly due to the increase in the number of users", the company warns, according toStrong.
Despite the removal of photos and videos, the Samsung Cloud will always save other data, such as contacts, calendar entries, and notes.
Your photos and videos will not be removed either if they are currently stored directly on your phone; This is only the media recorded on the cloud that will be affected.
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You can download your photos to your computer if you do not have enough telephone storage space.
If you have pictures that are on the Samsung cloud, you can download them to your phone or computer. On your phone, you will need to access your Main Settings menu, select "Accounts and Save" and scroll until you see "looking for something else", and then click on the Samsung Cloud link, which You will ask you to download your photos.
But if you do not have enough storage on your phone, you can also download your photos online via theSamsung Cloud website.
Or, you can have Samsung do it for you.
Alternatively, Samsung said you can opt at OneDrive Integration, which will "transfer safely" your Samsung cloud data to OneDrive.
To select this option, Samsung says you should see the notifications on this topic displayed on the Samsung Cloud application and on all devices that can integrate into OneDrive. "If you have deleted notifications or can not see the opinions, you can integrate in OneDrive by selecting" Link with OneDrive "in the Gallery Settings menu, they say.
Nevertheless, once the transfer is complete, "All data from the Samsung Cloud Cloud / Stored Gallery and drive data will be deleted."
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