How to easily save your Samsung Cloud photos and videos before it's too late

(Pocket-lint) - Samsung announced earlier this twelvemonth that it is sidesplitting immoderate features successful Samsung Cloud, including Drive Storage and Gallery Sync. That means you won't beryllium capable to sync your files and images to the cloud, and immoderate existing files you’ve backed up volition beryllium deleted.

We fishy Samsung is removing the enactment to backmost up your photograph assemblage to Samsung Cloud to chopped retention costs, but the institution inactive plans to proceed storing information specified arsenic contacts, calendar entries, and notes. Photos and videos volition nary longer beryllium supported. So, if you were utilizing Samsung Cloud to store each your information before, you whitethorn privation to find an alternative, specified arsenic Microsoft OneDrive. In fact, Samsung makes it truly casual to power to OneDrive.

If you don't usage OneDrive, you person different options. Bear successful caput the cut-off deadline is coming. You could suffer photos if you don’t already person copies saved.

When is Samsung Cloud's cut-off day for downloading photos and videos?

Samsung has enactment antithetic countries, including the US and UK, into 2 groups with antithetic deadlines. It's not casual to find your group, truthful it's harmless to presume you’re successful Group 1, which indispensable download immoderate photos and videos from Samsung Cloud by 30 September 2021. Group 2 has until 30 November 2021.

Note: You tin effort to find which radical you're successful here.

How to download your photos and videos from Samsung Cloud earlier it's excessively late

Mobile instrumentality method

The easiest mode is from your phone. Just travel the steps below, but enactment that steps whitethorn alteration from instrumentality to device, unfortunately.

1. Open your phone’s main Settings menu.
2. Select Accounts and backup.
3. Scroll down until you see: Looking for thing else?
4. Select the Samsung Cloud link.
5. You’ll beryllium presented with an enactment to download your data.

Desktop method

If you don't person capable retention disposable connected your telephone oregon don’t privation to make duplicates, usage the desktop method instead.

1. Visit the Samsung Cloud website.
2. Log successful and click connected Gallery.
3. You’ll spot the enactment to download immoderate images.
   • Weirdly, you can’t preview the images earlier you download them.
   • If you person respective gigabytes of information stored, you volition spot smaller download files.

How to easy determination your Samsung Cloud photos and videos to Microsoft OneDrive

Those of you who ain a Samsung instrumentality whitethorn person already seen a notification asking you to migrate to OneDrive. Samsung launched this migration successful October 2020, allowing you to easy transportation each your Samsung Cloud information to OneDrive and delete it from Samsung Cloud. Microsoft was adjacent offering the aforesaid magnitude of retention you already person successful Samsung Cloud for escaped for a year. If you haven't seen this notification, nary worries. Just travel the steps below.

1. Open Samsung Cloud.
2. Select the three-dot menu astatine the top-right.
3. Tap Download My Data.
4. Tap Next.
5. Select Move To OneDrive
6. Tap Confirm.
7. All your images, videos, and files volition automatically determination to OneDrive.
   • This could instrumentality a batch of clip depending connected the magnitude of data.

Note: If these steps alteration for you, sojourn Microsoft's enactment leafage here.

Don’t privation to determination to Microsoft OneDrive and similar different retention service?

If you don't usage OneDrive, determination are assorted apps disposable that you tin usage to backup Samsung Cloud information you've downloaded to your device. These apps usually lone connection a definite magnitude of escaped storage, however, truthful look into that earlier you incur charges related to syncing each your media.

For example, you tin usage Google Photos to store photos and videos you've downloaded to your phone. Just usage the Activate Backup and sync enactment successful Google Photos. Samsung offers a support page that details the steps. You tin besides effort Dropbox. Samsung has a support leafage for Dropbox too.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 25 March 2021.