Facebook is probably the most used social network worldwide. With over 2 billion users, connections are made and pictures and videos are posted by the millions every day. If you’re thinking of deleting your Facebook account, it’s a good idea to first decide what you want to do with the media you’ve uploaded so far. If you close your account, you risk losing all of this content. So, we’re going to give you some tips to be able to save the content you’ve posted so far!
Google Photos, a good option for saving pictures
If you want to stay away from online and social media for a while, you can easily delete your Facebook and Instagram profile (if you use it). You just have to go into the settings and look for the option to disable or delete the account.
Before doing this, you should know that after selecting the option to delete your profile, you will not be able to recover the contents of your profile (pictures, videos). Therefore, it is much better to keep all such files in the cloud and you can access them from there whenever you want.
And one of the best and safest places to store photos and videos is Google Photos, the world’s most used image library. In this way, you will be able to access the pictures and videos you have collected over time on Facebook whenever you want.
Google Photos offers unlimited storage space and a smart search function so that files saved in this library are easy to access. Following a partnership signed between Facebook and Google, you can transfer all the photos and videos from your personal Facebook account to Google Photos.
How to transfer photos and videos from Facebook
The procedure to transfer all photos and videos from Facebook to Google Photos is very simple. You just have to follow the steps below, and at the end you will notice that the transfer process was successful and you were able to transfer any file you wanted, directly to your Google account.
The new option can be accessed from the “Settings” section of your personal Facebook account, under the “Your Facebook Information” section. Here you will access the “Transfer a copy of your photos and videos” option, and further on you will click on “Choose Destination”, and the only option available at the moment is Google Photos.
You will have to choose which photos and videos to save, because you cannot transfer both types of files at the same time. Click “Next” and you will be asked to enter your Facebook account password for authentication. In order for the file transfer to be carried out, it is necessary to first log in to your Google account where the transfer will be carried out.
At the end you will be asked to confirm the transfer by pressing the “Allow” button, at which point the file transfer can begin. Finally, first check if all the files are also present in the Google Photos account, then you can delete the Facebook profile quietly.