Tuesday, July 21,2015., “Google Plus Photos will be shut down from August 1, 2015 by the arrival of Google Photos, a new photo and video application”, said by Google.
Google launched its Google Photos in Google I/O 2015, a new, standalone product that gives as the home for all the photos and videos. It can store unlimited high quality photos and videos for free, can find photos fast, see them organized, searchable easily. Also it can bring moments to life and share anywhere with anyone.
“Google+ Photos shutdown initially on Android, and soon thereafter on the Web and iOS”, Google said.
If we still using Google+ Photos, we can shifted to the new Google Photos. A prompt can be seen in Google+ Photos on Android with a link to download the new Google Photos. All the photos and videos will still be saved and available after we switch to the new, stand-alone Google Photos app. This new app be able to create backup, edit, and share the photos and videos, with unlimited storage, automatic organization, and more.
We can download the new Google Photos for uninterrupted access to all photos, videos and albums. If we are not updated to the new Google Photos, Google+ Photos on Android will soon stop working, but the photos and videos will still remain safely stored and available here. Or we can also export all the photos and videos using Google Takeout at any time.
Google Photos app can be downloaded for Android devices from here.
Google Photos is not a social network, so we won’t see Google+ posts we’ve shared or photos we were tagged in on Google+.
There is no need to have Google Plus account to use the Google Photos app. If we shared any photos and videos with someone, they doesn’t need a Google account to see them.
Updated: Wednesday, July 22, 2015., The head of Google Photos, Anil Sabharwal, explained some of the points on Why Google shutdown Google Plus Photos?
I wanted to clarify a couple of points regarding yesterday’s announcement (https://goo.gl/TL0l6j) and provide some additional context:
1. The great photo and video sharing service that’s part of Google+ is unaffected. You can continue to post photos and videos, and your followers will be able to comment and +1 as before. No change.
2. All of the photos, videos, and albums you have already shared on Google+, including their posts, comments, and +1s are also unaffected. An easy way to find these is to visit the Photos tab of your Profile page.
3. The private photo management component of Google+, which includes backup, editing, creations, private album management (album management for shared content is still available on Google+), and sharing to other apps, is being replaced by Google Photos.
I sincerely appreciate for many of you #3 is still a hard pill to swallow. And I promise we don’t take decisions like this one lightly. The reality is that maintaining both Google+ Photos (the private photo management component of Google+) and Google Photos poses several challenges. Most notably, it is confusing to users why we have two offerings that virtually do the same thing, and it means our team needs to divide its focus rather than working on building a single, great user experience.
We are working very hard to bring all the best features of Google+ Photos to Google Photos, and this focus will allow us to deliver even more features at a much faster pace.
