Wait for Facebook Transfer Tool to Transfer Your Photos
If you’ve been dreaming of transferring your Facebook photos and videos to another service, you might want to wait a little longer. Facebook is going to make this process a lot easier than today’s technology: downloading all of your data , sorting your media, and sitting there while it takes your computer ages to upload it to another cloud storage service .
The company recently announced a new feature that will allow users to transfer all of their Facebook photos and videos to other photography services, starting with Google Photos. The tool is still in the testing phase and will first be available in Ireland before rolling out to the rest of the world during 2020.
While an explanation of how the transfer works – and how long it might take – will have to wait until the tool is officially available, it looks like it’s all going to happen on Facebook’s interface. You should be able to easily and “immediately” move your photos and videos to other services, probably after you’ve linked them to your Facebook account.
Facebook did not provide any brilliant security details for the transfer process in their post. More information on data privacy on Facebook’s commitment to data portability is included in a whitepaper published by the company back in September. The document contains details that Facebook claims it learned from “conversations with politicians, regulators, academics, lawyers and others” that will be used in its future tools and data portability policy.
As for the photo transfer feature itself, we’ll be keeping an eye on more information and will definitely post about the tool when it becomes available next year. In the meantime, it’s probably best to refrain from any big data migrations until Facebook introduces its tool for everyone to try.