What will happen to my photos saved in Samsung Cloud

If you have a Samsung mobile, and more importantly, use Samsung's cloud or cloud services to store your photos and documents, please pay attention to the following: Samsung will stop operating Some Samsung Cloud features for everyone starting June 30, 2021 In other words: All photos and other stored content will be deleted. But there is time and solutions to recover everything and make sure that all your contents are safe.Keep reading.

Samsung is getting along well with Microsoft, which is why will be moving some of its features from Samsung Cloud to Microsoft OneDrive No official reason why some of the features of Samsung Cloud will stop working, but users are being informed about the process and the options at hand to avoid losing their stored documents and photos.

As we say, there are only some functions that will disappear. Specifically the synchronization of the gallery, Drive and the Premium storage subscription Tools with which users can have a backup of documents, photos and contents beyond their mobile. This way they could recover them on their computer or Samsung mobile in case they lost the terminal or any other situation. The rest of the functions, such as the general backup copies of the terminal, will remain in use and active.So that the process is not drastic, Samsung has proposed a schedule with some margin for users to decide what to do with this content.

• 5-10-2020: Gallery sync features, Drive, and Premium storage subscription cannot be used.
• 1-04-2021: Services will stop being used and your storage subscription will be automatically cancelled.
• 06-30-2021: Ends the ability to download any files affected by the cancellation of these services.

How to migrate content from Samsung Cloud to Microsoft OneDrive

One of the options proposed by Samsung is to transfer all these files stored in its cloud to Microsoft OneDrive. In this way, and if the service is available in the user's country of residence, the process will be simple and the contents will remain on the Internet to be able to retrieve them when needed.Basically it's taking them from one cloud to another, but with the eextra advantage of maintaining synchronization with your Samsung devices

To do this you will have to follow the steps detailed in this link before March 31, 2021, at which time the the deadline for migration. Please note that once you start the migration, Samsung Cloud services will stop working.

How to download your content from Samsung Cloud

If, on the other hand, you do not want to use Microsoft OneDrive services, despite offering synchronization with your Samsung devices, you will have the option to download themIn this way you will once again have photos and files from the Samsung cloud, but this time materialized directly on your mobile or computer.

In the same way as in the migration, once you request to download these contents, Samsung Cloud will stop offering the tools that it will close down . In addition, you have a deadline to download all this content.

Pass over this link starting next October 5, 2020 to find out all the steps to download this content. Download will be available until June 30, 2021 From then on, anything still saved in Samsung Cloud and not migrated or downloaded will be removed from Samsung cloud. And it will be then when there is no option to recover your photos and documents.