Google will remove certain photos from your gallery unless you do something to prevent it.

If you used Hangouts (before the platform was renamed to Google Chat) or another company service that is no longer available, you can still see images you have shared or received thanks to album archive of your account; But not for long. The company informs some users that they will soon remove this feature, which will permanently delete saved images. Yes, there is a way to avoid this.

The Google Albums Archive specifically It will close completely on July 19th.as reported by the company in an email sent to some users, as well as on the website itself, where the following notice appears: “The photos and videos you see here will no longer be available from July 19, 2023.”

Google does not specify the reason for closing the album archive, but it is likely due to its low user usage. In fact, the company has Google Photos as its image storage service.

How to restore images from an archive before Google deletes them

However, how can we recover images stored in albums file? Google offers a very practical solution: its own Takeout service, which allows you to export data from different platforms into downloadable files. That is, what we have to do is backup the saved images.

To do this, you just need to go to the Google Albums Archive website and click “Go to takeaway” through the banner that appears on the screen. You will see the selected album file appear on the Takeout page, so you only need to click on the next step. Next, choose how you want to get the file, download frequency, and file format. Finally, click on the export button.

You have to take into account yes that exporting data to Takeout can take hours or even days. Therefore, you should pay attention to your email, where you will receive a link to download images that Google will completely remove on July 19th.