How to Transfer Facebook Photos and Video to Google Photos – Guide

Facebook has announced the availability of its data transfer service in India, which allows users to move their photos and videos off the network. As part of the company’s Data Transfer Project, the data transfer tool was originally launched in Ireland in December 2019. Users can upload their Facebook images and videos to Google Photos using the Facebook data transfer tool. Users will soon be able to stream their photos and videos to other platforms that join the Facebook Data Transfer Project, according to a Facebook representative.

How to transfer photos and videos from Facebook to Google Photos

On the ‘Your Facebook Information’ page, click on the ‘Edit Profile’ button. On the ‘Edit Profile’ page, under the ‘Name’ section, enter your full name. Under the ‘Contact Info’ section, enter your email address and phone number. Under the ‘Website’ section, enter your website URL. ..

If you have photos or videos of your own, you can easily transfer them to the cloud for safekeeping.

Google Photos will open and show your photos. You can choose to keep them all or select a certain number to keep. ..

You can transfer photos and videos at once if you want to. If you want to transfer photos and videos twice, that’s okay too. ..

Next, click on the ‘Photos’ or ‘Videos’ tab and select the photos or videos you want to include in your post. To add a photo or video, click on the ‘Add Media’ button and select the file you want to upload. To crop or adjust the photo or video, click on the ‘crop’ button and use the slider to adjust the size of the photo or video. To add text to your photo or video, click on the ‘text’ button and type in your caption. ..

Log in to your Google account.

Facebook is asking for permission to add photos from your Google Photos library to its site.

If you want to continue using the site, click ‘Allow’. If you do not want to use the site anymore, click ‘Block’. ..

Confirm your transfer to the new team.

Your Facebook photos will be transferred to Google Photos and you will be able to access them in the Photos app or on the website. The transfer will take some time depending on the photos you have. The transfer will show in the ‘Activity’ section as ‘Pending’ until it starts and then it will say ‘in progress’ while the photos are being transferred. Once the process is complete, you will receive an email from Facebook notifying you of the same.

The photos you transferred from Facebook to Google Photos will be displayed as ‘Copy of album name’.

Final note

How to Transfer Facebook Photos and Video to Google Photos If you have Facebook photos and videos, you may want to transfer them to Google Photos. Here’s how:

  1. Log in to your Facebook account.
  2. Click on the three lines in the top left corner of your screen (the one that says “Profile”). This will take you to your main profile page.
  3. Scroll down until you find the “Photos” tab. This is where you’ll find all of your Facebook photos and videos.
  4. Click on the “Upload” button next to each photo or video thumbnail to start uploading them!