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The warning may be scandal installed Facebook Moments or lose all the photos you have on your phone
. This statement is not accurate , as explained below lines.
But the story behind has led many bloggers calling it another attempt by the social network impose a new app .
are you willing you to give in to the temptation (or pressure)?
What photos’ll pe r der?
the issue affects you only if you chose at some point to synchronize your photos automatically with the network.
in 2012, Facebook offered to owners of iOS first telephones, and other systems later, the possibility that your pictures are copied to a private album, called “synced album” or synced album.
The idea was that 1) compartieras more easily and 2) will save space on your phone , since the synchronized photos were indeed stored for free in the cloud (giving the possibility to delete them from your mobile without losing them).
are the photos stored in the “synced album” that Facebook deleted from July 7, unless you have downloaded the new App, Moments. Or recover manually.
How can you save?
According to the instructions on the page of help from Facebook, these are the steps to protect photos synced:
1. Go to your profile Facebook
2.Haz click on “photos”
3.Haz click “synchronized from the phone” ( S ynced from phone )
4.Elige photo that interests you
5.Haz click “options” under the photo and select “download” ( download )
to rescue all synchronized photos at once, Facebook instructs go to the section “synchronized from the phone “” your photos “and click on the link to download all synced photos.
Again, another option to keep synced albums-and that is promoting is lower Moments Facebook- application.
and what is it?
Facebook Moments is a photo sharing application that allows” organize and share photos privately from your phone , and download or delete photos you’ve synchronized to Facebook, “explains the network.
the application will ask your permission to access photos on your phone. Once you have grouped according to the time they were already taken people who appear in them.
This will help create albums, under specific titles.
Among other features, you make suggestions about who share and give you the option of using an integrated approach to ask your friends who, in turn, the share chat.
Under certain conditions allow you to also create “presentations”.
So what’s the scandal?
Several specialized media have criticized Facebook so see as an attempt to “push” your application among users .
Last week, TechCrunch reported that the app was positioned at the top of the Apple Store and Google Play, thanks to the warning according to which if not instalabas, lose your photos.
“ some users do not understand (that Facebook will not erase all your photos) , having forgotten while option sync. it is possible that a portion think Facebook is, in fact, threatening to delete your photo files if not installed Moments “.
” This should not surprise us, “wrote the British newspaper the Guardian.
“Facebook did something similar recently with his app Messenger. by eliminating the chat of the app main force their users to install Messenger, boosted app to more than 900 million users. “
” Facebook is not threatening to delete your entire photo archive if you do not install Moments. what it is doing is force you to install another app , as you pressed with Messenger “CheatSheet wrote.
at the end Facebook this note had not responded to the request of BBC World a comment.
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