Facebook has begun to expand the support of the tool that allows you to transfer photos and videos to Google Photos. The new feature is currently available for American and Canadian users in various European Union countries (including Italy) and in other countries.
It is accessible through the Settings of the social network, inside the card Your information on Facebook: Here users will find the ability to easily transfer all photos and videos to Google Photos through Transfer a copy of your photos and videos.
But what sense does it make for Facebook to facilitate the sending of photos and videos on a service of a direct competitor? The new tool is to be seen inside the Data Transfer Project (DTP), and was launched in early December last year with a promise to reach more countries by the end of 2020. Starting in March, the tool began to become available worldwide, including countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
The Data Transfer Project is an initiative of data sharing started in 2018 to help users easily move their data between various online services. The project includes several companies that work together to shape the "future of portability", including technology giants Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter. For the future, several services are expected to offer the possibility of making simple transfers, with compatibility gradually expanding.
The initiative is still in its infancy, with most of the progress focused on the back-end, although last June Google said that numerous projects aimed directly at users will also arrive within the initiative, as in the case of the new tool of Facebook.
