But Sensor Tower, a mobile analytics firm, said the app has been installed by 87 million users on Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store since the service was first launched. Next week, people who have used the Moments app within the last year will also get a notification when they open the main Facebook app.įacebook said it's shutting down the app because not many people are using it, though the company declined to share user numbers. On Thursday, Facebook began informing users of the shutdown through email, as well as an alert on the Moments app. By default, the photos in those albums will be set so only you can see them. People can also upload their Moments photos to an album on Facebook's main app. Here's how to do that: Starting Thursday, people will be able to go to a website Facebook has set up, where they can go through their photos and export them either to their computers or the camera rolls on their phones. "We know the photos people share are important to them so we will continue offering ways to save memories within the Facebook app."įacebook said it wants to let people retrieve their photos from the app before it's killed. "We're ending support for the Moments app, which we originally launched as a place for people to save their photos," Rushabh Doshi, director of product management for Moments, said in a statement. The concept, which is similar to Google Photos, was for people to be able to easily swap group photos or vacation pictures more easily. Moments, first released in 2015, lets you share pictures that are stored on your phone with your Facebook friends without actually uploading the photos to the social network itself. The app's services will be discontinued on Feb. Tip: Each eBook that you download below can be viewed, searched, and printed in the free Microsoft Edge browser, or in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader app.Facebook said on Thursday it was shuttering Moments, its standalone app for privately sharing photos with friends, in part because few people were using it.
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