How To Move Facebook Photos To Google Photos

This article will show you how to move images from Facebook to your Google Photo

Facebook is one of the first social media platforms that have lasted a long time with millions of active users. It holds several thousands of pictures of every user. It important for user to take a backup of all these images so that they are still available whenever they want to use it.

Facebook has introduced a new tool, the new tools are faster and more efficient and keep the photos organized the same way that you had on Facebook. This is a useful feature if you have spent a lot of time sorting your pics on Facebook before.

It is certainly a good idea to have a backup and making a copy of your data is important if you decide to quit Facebook at some point.

The new tools allow you to send Facebook photos and videos only to Google Photos for now and does not support any other cloud service.

Below are the steps given below to transfer all the images from Facebook photos to Google Photos.

You will have to give Facebook access to your Google account, and you will get a security alert from Google notifying that Facebook now has new permissions related to your account.

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According to Facebook, they won’t have access to any of your Google information and the company will not use the permissions secured for any purpose other than the said data transfer. You can always go back and revoke the permission at any time using the privacy settings on Google. You get a notification from Facebook when the transfer is done, and you can log on to the Google Photos to take a look at the images imported.

2. – Open the Facebook app on the web

– Tap on the drop-down menu to the top right of the screen and then click on Settings

– From the left navigation bar, Tap on the Your Facebook Information tab

– Then Enter your Facebook password to continue and confirm

– You can now click on the Transfer a copy of your photos or videos option

– Now Choose the Google photos option as the destination in the dropdown of the screen

– You will now have to log in to Google Photos using your password and authenticate the transfer

– Now grant the required permissions to Facebook to add the photos to your Google Photos Library
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Click the transfer option and wait for the transfer to complete, you will be notified once the transfer is done

3. The photos will then be sorted into folders with names that mirror the arrangement in your Facebook account. The image quality in your Google Photos account will remain in the same quality as the ones uploaded on Facebook, while Google does not allow original quality uploaded and limits the highest resolution option, Facebook anyway downgrades the high-quality images by a much higher extent so there is nothing to worry about.

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Credit: Akhil Taneja