How to save all your Facebook photos to Google Photos

A few months ago, Facebook launched a new tool to save photos stored on the platform directly to Google Photos. Automatically creates a copy of the photos and passes it to the Google service via encrypted transfer.

An initiative that is part of its resources for data portability. This dynamic has already been tested in Ireland and is now spreading to our countries.

Do you want to know how it works? We explain it to you in detail below

Set the destination and content of your copy of photos

This new tool is among the options to manage and download all the information from your Facebook account.

To do this, you just have to open the Facebook app and go to Privacy Settings >> Settings >> Your Facebook information. Choose the option “Transfer a copy of your photos and videos”, and you will see the options that this tool provides to start the process.

The first step is to choose the destination for copying your Facebook photos or videos. At the moment, the only service enabled is Google Photos, so you only have to select “Choose destination” to choose the Google service.

The second step is to decide what content you want to export to Google Photos: videos or photos. You can't pass all your media in a single copy. So you'll have to pass a copy of your photos first and then one of your videos, or vice versa.

With these two steps you finish configuring the transfer of photos from Facebook, so all that remains is to click "Next" to go to the other stage of the process.

Enable Google permissions

Once you finish the steps above, Facebook will direct you to the Google login page. So now it's time to configure the permissions in your Google account:

• First, you'll need to sign in to your Google account. (You may find it confusing because the Facebook logo appears, but you are on the Google page)
• And then, it remains to enable the necessary permissions so that the copy of your Facebook photos go to the Google Photos library

Once you complete these steps, will automatically start transferring your copy of photos (or videos) to Google Photos

Managing Photo Prints

The transfer process can take just a few minutes or take a long period of time depending on the number of photos contained in the Facebook copy.

But don't worry, you'll be able to know the status of the process. In the same section of the tool, under "Activity" each copy you have made and its status is recorded, as you can see in the images.

And of course, every time the transfer process is finished you will receive a notification on Facebook.

How do you save your copy of Facebook photos to Google Photos? For each copy of photos from Facebook, an album is created in Google Photos, under the name “Copy of Photos uploaded with the mobile”, or some similar title.

Please note that this is not an automatic sync, it's just a copy you've created from your Facebook photos, and transferred to another service. So if you delete photos in Google Photos they won't be deleted in Facebook, and vice versa.

What can you do with your Facebook photos in Google Photos?

Once you've saved your Facebook photos to Google Photos you can use all the features that the service has to offer. For example:

• You can edit the album (change title, cover, etc) or organize your photos in different albums
• Create animations, collages or movies with your photos
• Edit your photos, add effects, correct imperfections, add text, among other possibilities
• Share them with your friends through links or collaborative albums
• Archive as backup

How to un-integrate Facebook with Google Photos?

Once you've moved your photos from Facebook to Google Photos, you may no longer want to maintain the connection between the two services. If so, you can revoke permissions to Facebook at any time You have to do this step from your Google account.

To do this, open any of the Google applications (Gmail, Google Photos, etc) and select your profile image to see the option “Manage your Google account”. In this section of Google you will find different sections, but the one that interests you in this step is "Security", as you can see in the image.

Simply scroll to “Third-party apps with account access” to select the “Manage third-party access” option, and you can remove access to Facebook.

This does not mean that you will no longer be able to use the Facebook tool, you will simply have to carry out the entire process again to enable its operation. We do all the steps from the Facebook app, but follow the same dynamics if you want to do it from the web version.

Pro and Con of the Facebook tool

The tool serves its purpose of creating a copy of your photos or videos and passing it directly to Google Photos. This saves you from having to manually download your content and upload it to the Google service.

At the moment, it does not allow us to choose the photo albums that we want to include in the copy, as is the case with the Google tool.So it can be useful the first time to pass all the photos we have in our Facebook account, but it won't work if we only want to save a copy of new content to Google Photos.

Maybe in the future new options will be added to this tool, along with more services to save your Facebook photos.