Samsung Cloud gets its final expiration date as Microsoft rejoices

Concluding updated: Baronial 31st, 2020 at 13:xix UTC+01:00

Samsung has been in the process of winding downwardly its consumer cloud service for a while now, just it wasn't until today that it detailed this effort to whatever meaningful extent. More than specifically, the company confirmed Samsung Cloud file synchronization will be coming to an terminate on June 21st, 2021. The pick of synchronizing your images and videos direct from the Gallery app will be going abroad much sooner than that, however. The netherlands, for example, is losing it on October 5th, but pretty much every market will be afflicted this autumn.

Users only have until April 1st to migrate their data to OneDrive, whereas the final 10 weeks volition only permit them to manually download their data, after which Samsung Cloud servers will be shutting down for good, thus concluding the motility that started with One UI two.1 based on Android 10 before this year.

The death of Samsung Cloud a huge boon to Microsoft

Naturally, the sunset of Samsung Deject will besides spell an stop to its My Files integration, with all of its synchronization capabilities being discontinued in favor of OneDrive (though Google Drive sync in My Files is yet an option). All of this is office of a larger strategy shift that saw Samsung pull the plug on many of its software initiatives after terminal it would exist more cost-constructive to pursue fundamental partnerships similar the one with Microsoft's OneDrive team.

Samsung'due south gradual software downsizing is already so advanced that the company is reportedly fifty-fifty because canceling SDC 2020. Of form, the ongoing health concerns are a major signal of consideration as well. In the meantime, brand sure your Gallery and My Files backups are reuploaded to OneDrive by going to the settings page of either app and tapping the Sync with OneDriveorOneDriveoption.