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(Pocket-lint) – Facebook offers a “photo transfer tool” designed to allow you to easily transfer pictures and videos from your social network profile to Google Photos and other storage services.
What is Facebook Photo Transfer Tool?
At launch, Facebook’s photo transfer tool allowed you to transfer your personal media stored on Facebook to Google Photos. Now it supports more services.
Before the tool was deployed, it was much more laborious to transfer your photos because it had to be done by hand. In a blog post, Steve Satterfield, Facebook’s director of privacy and public policy, said the tool is rooted in the premise that “if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another.” .
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How to use the Facebook photo transfer tool
Once logged into your Facebook account on the web, follow these steps:
Click the down arrow in the menu bar.
Select “Settings and privacy”.
Select Settings.
Go to the tab that says “Your Facebook Info”.
Click “View” next to “Upload a copy of your photos or videos.”
Under step 1, where you choose a destination, select Google Photos.
In step 2, select the photos or videos to transfer.
Click Next and sign in to your Google Photos account.
Allow Facebook to add to your Google Photos library.
Confirm your transfer.
Can you use it with other storage services?
Google Photos was quite simply the first storage service supported by Facebook. Now you can choose Photobucket, Dropbox, WordPress, etc.
Want to know more?
Check out the original Facebook blog post on the tool.
Written by Maggie Tillman. Originally published on .
