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How to Easily Save Samsung Cloud Photos Before It’s Too Late
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(Pocket-lint) – Samsung announced earlier this year that it was removing certain features from Samsung Cloud, including Drive Storage and Gallery Sync. This means that you will not be able to sync your files and images with the cloud, and any existing files that you have backed up will be deleted.
We suspect that Samsung is removing the ability to save your photo gallery to Samsung Cloud to reduce storage costs, but the company still plans to continue storing data such as contacts, calendar entries, and notes. Photos and videos will no longer be supported. So, if you previously used Samsung Cloud to store all your data, you might want to find an alternative, such as Microsoft OneDrive. In fact, Samsung is making it easy to switch to OneDrive.
If you’re not using OneDrive, you have other options. Keep in mind that the deadline is approaching. You might lose photos if you don’t already have saved copies.
When is the deadline for uploading photos and videos by Samsung Cloud?
Samsung has classified different countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, into two groups with different time frames. It is not easy to determine your group, so it is safe to assume that you are in group 1, which must upload all photos and videos from Samsung Cloud before September 30, 2021. Group 2 has until November 30, 2021.
Remark : You can try to determine which group you are in here.
How to Download Your Photos and Videos from Samsung Cloud Before It’s Too Late
Mobile device method
The easiest way is from your phone. Just follow the steps below, but note that unfortunately the steps may vary from device to device.
- Open menu Settings primary of your phone.
- Select Accounts and backup.
- Scroll down until you see: Are you looking for something else?
- Select the Samsung Cloud link.
- You will be offered an option for download your data.
Office method
If you don’t have enough storage available on your phone or don’t want to create duplicates, use the desktop method instead.
- Visit the Samsung Cloud website.
- Log in and click Gallery.
- You will see the option of Download images.
- Strangely, you can’t preview the images before downloading them.
- If you have multiple gigabytes of data stored, you will see smaller download files.
How to Easily Move Your Samsung Cloud Photos and Videos to Microsoft OneDrive
Those of you who own a Samsung device may have already seen a notification asking you to migrate to OneDrive. Samsung launched this migration in October 2020, making it easy for you to transfer all your Samsung Cloud data to OneDrive and delete it from Samsung Cloud. Microsoft even offered the same amount of storage you already have in Samsung Cloud for free for a year. If you haven’t seen this notification, no worries. Just follow the steps below.
- Open Samsung Cloud.
- Select the three-dot menu top right.
- Press on Download my data.
- Press on Following.
- Select Move to OneDrive
- Press on To confirm.
- All your images, videos and files will be automatically moved to OneDrive.
- It may take a long time depending on the amount of data.
Remark : if these steps vary for you, visit the Microsoft support page here.
Don’t want to migrate to Microsoft OneDrive and prefer another storage service?
If you are not using OneDrive, there are various apps available that you can use to back up Samsung Cloud data that you have downloaded to your device. However, these apps usually only offer a certain amount of free storage, so check them out before incurring any charges for syncing all of your media.
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For example, you can use Google Photos to store photos and videos that you have downloaded to your phone. Just use the Turn on backup and sync option in Google Photos. Samsung offers a support page that details the steps. You can also try Dropbox. Samsung also has a support page for Dropbox.
Written by Maggie Tillman. Originally published on .