The social network pushed users to download Messenger by removing the chat feature from its main app back in 2014. It’s important to note, as The Verge points out, that this only applies to photos automatically synced and not photos that you uploaded to Facebook from your phone.
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Facebook will delete all the photos users have synced from the main Facebook app if they do not install its dedicated photo-sharing app Moments before 7 July. It uses facial recognition software to group photos based on the folks who are in them. And the photos get directly saved in the album named “synced” or ‘synced from phone.’ Facebook further states that the photos or videos won’t be affected if you Download Moments app and login before July 7, 2016.
Rather not deal with Moments? Facebook is now going to delete these top secret photos which even the Facebook user did not know. If you’d like to keep your synced photos and don’t want Facebook to delete them, you need to do download the Moments and log in beforeJuly 7th.
Facebook has warned that unless users switch to the platforms Moments app before 7th July. The feature makes it easier to share them on Facebook or just between friends.
After Facebook notified its millions of users, Moments became one of the most downloaded in the App Store recently, which is the aim of the social media giant.
If there’s one thing that Facebook love doing, it is to force you to install new apps they release. The application allows users to privately share photos with friends and organize their albums in an intuitive way.
“People that use photo syncing will have the option to move the photos they’ve previously synced to our new app Moments, where they will be able to view, download, or delete them”. The company promised mobile users would get unlimited automatic image uploads from their handsets to a private Facebook photo album, according to The Guardian.
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If you don’t use Facebook’s Moments app, the social network is looking to incentive you a bit to check it out-though, perhaps incentivize is the wrong word.
