Will Google delete your photos? Understanding the end of the album archive – Tecnoblog

Big Tech sent emails to several users stating that the photos are from the photo album archive; Google is finishing backing up legacy services

If you recently received an email from Google saying that your photo album archive will be deleted, stay relatively calm. Big Tech is ending support for album archives, and it’s backing up photos from outdated and outdated services — like Picasa and Hangouts. Users can save their old photo album until July 18th.

As explained by file Google on its official siteAnd Pictures only in Album archive It will be removed on July 19th. When you access the photo service, you will see a message saying that all photos that appear will be deleted. The Albums archive contains extinct photos of Picasa, Hangouts, and maybe even Google Plus – can’t stress here because almost no one remembers them, much less uses them.

If you have photos in the album archive, you can download them through a file Google Takeout, Google program to recover files saved by users. According to Big tech, among the album’s archive images are some Hangouts, Gmail background images from before 2018, and “rare instances” of small thumbnails.

If you have previously used Blogger, images will be uploaded to the service It may be in the album archive. In my tests, only old photos from Blogger and Hangouts are available.

However, most of your Hangout photos may be saved to Google Chat. After closing the first, the company moved several contents to the alternative.

And don’t worry: Photos or videos in Google Photos (or Drive) won’t be affected by the end of the album archive. And given that the album archive keeps very old photos, perhaps it would be best to lose some memories – an example of those photos from years ago, when we wore some of the looks we are ashamed of today.