By: Sandra Nnaemeka
Google+ is shutting down for consumers on April 12, but will it affect G Suite Users.
Well, before we discuss that, let’s show you step-by-step guide to download your content including photos and videos from the social networking platform, according to TechEconomy.ng report.
Google’s social networking platform, Google+, is shutting down for consumers. After April 2, 2019, Google will delete all the content including photos, videos and posts from your account. Ahead of the shut down, Google will bar users from creating new profiles, pages, communities or events from February 4.
In October last year, Google had announced shutting down the social networking platform after its engineers found the APIs to be “challenging to develop and maintain.”
The company also discovered a critical bug in one of the Google+ People APIs. Another security breach, discovered in December, affected 52.5 million Google+ accounts.
With the discovery of this new bug, Google has decided to expedite the shut-down of all Google+ APIs. If you’re a Google+ user, here’s how you can save your data from getting deleted.
How
to download all your Google+ data
Google is allowing users to download an archive of the entire
Google+ data, including content from circles, communities and even +1s.
The archive also includes your images and videos uploaded on the social networking platform.
Step 1 Visit the Download data page – https://takeout.google.com/…/circles,plus_one,plus_communit… .
Ensure all the data is pre-selected.
Step 2 Choose a file type.
Step 3 Select the download format depending upon your preference
Step 4 Click on create archive
Step 5 You can also choose to download specific Google+ data
G Suite users, admins
Note that Google isn’t shutting down for enterprise users. In fact, Google says
it will continue to make investments in Google+ for enterprise users.
This means that for those of you who use Google+ as part of G Suite, your accounts will remain active.
G Suite users include businesses who pay for its services and educational institutions and other organisations that use G Suite at no cost