Second, Google has a page you can visit to download all your data from Google+, and upload it to a more widely used social network, like Friendster or Myspace. How can I save my uploaded content?įirst, I don’t believe you. If you have a Google+ account but have never used it – which is easy, because for many years Google all but forced users to create an account to access common functions such as the ability to comment on YouTube videos – then you can sit back and let it be deleted in two months’ time. The company had initially planned to shut the social network down in August this year, but in November it discovered another bug that gave apps access to non-public information, and brought forward the shutdown to April. That leak “potentially affected up to 500,000 accounts”, allowing third-party applications to access information marked as private, although Google said it had found “no evidence that any profile data was misused”. Perhaps those “challenges” largely relate to a data leak in the social network that it discovered in March 2018 but did not disclose for six months.
The company’s official explanation is that it decided to shutter the site “due to low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers’ expectations”. If you log in using your Google account details and still have a button on the left side of the screen that says “Join Google+”, then you are not a member of the social network and nothing will be deleted. If you are still unsure, you can check at. If you have an account, Google will email you – it may have already done so – telling you that “your personal Google+ account is going away on 2 April 2019”. How can I tell if I have a Google+ account? Your Google account, which is linked to services such as Gmail, YouTube and Maps, will continue to work, but your Google+ account, which was only used for the social network, will be deleted. Photos and videos stored in Google Photos, for instance, will not be affected. The deletion does not affect other Google services. What is being deleted?Īny Google+ pages you created, as well as photos and videos stored in your Google+ album archive. We answer some key questions surrounding the closure. The duration of impact on Cloud services spans the window from 10:05 US/Pacific on Tuesday, 19. Cloud services were restored to operation by Wednesday, 20 July 2022 at 04:28 US/Pacific. The announcement has caused confusion among some Google users the company made it easy for people to create a Google+ page by accident, leaving many unaware they had joined the social network in the first place. Google engineers began service restoration once the cooling system was repaired on Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 14:13 US/Pacific.
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