Frequently asked questions about the Google+ shutdown - Google+ Help
Carefully buried in Google's announcement today of an April 2, 2019 shutdown date, was a link to a FAQ addressing at least some of the questions many of us have had over the shutdown, effects, timing, and more. This is Google's official FAQ on the G+ shutdown and may be useful.
Key takeaways:
Your data will not be available after April 2. Data export must occur before the shutdown.
Google will begin deleting most user data associated with G+ immediately following the April 2 shutdown. There are a few exceptions (some categories of photos, legal mandates), and some surprising inclusions. It appears Google want this data gone, gone, gone. If you don't, you're going to have to do something about it now.
The actual deletion may take some months. I suspect this has to do with how data were stored and addressed in different versions of G+, and it's likely that most data will be deleted fairly quickly. Expect little or no grace period. Though there may be the odd relics remaining.
There will be additional Community export capability at some point in "early March", including content, but only for public communities. If you're running a private community, Google Data Takeout will not offer you the ability to archive content from it. And this ability applies to Community Owners and Moderators only.
Google photos previously retained after deleting G+ accounts will now be deleted. See the FAQ for more.
There are no provisions offered for remaining in contact via Google/Google+ itself. You will have to establish external contact methods, much as we've been encouraging here for months.
Google+ content (mostly comments) on Blogger will be removed after the shutdown: "All your Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2, 2019."
*There are some interesting edge cases for G Suite users. Including products, service, and/or content which won't work or will be deleted. See the FAQ and its references.
Use of other Google services, we're assured, will not be affected.
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723
Carefully buried in Google's announcement today of an April 2, 2019 shutdown date, was a link to a FAQ addressing at least some of the questions many of us have had over the shutdown, effects, timing, and more. This is Google's official FAQ on the G+ shutdown and may be useful.
Key takeaways:
Your data will not be available after April 2. Data export must occur before the shutdown.
Google will begin deleting most user data associated with G+ immediately following the April 2 shutdown. There are a few exceptions (some categories of photos, legal mandates), and some surprising inclusions. It appears Google want this data gone, gone, gone. If you don't, you're going to have to do something about it now.
The actual deletion may take some months. I suspect this has to do with how data were stored and addressed in different versions of G+, and it's likely that most data will be deleted fairly quickly. Expect little or no grace period. Though there may be the odd relics remaining.
There will be additional Community export capability at some point in "early March", including content, but only for public communities. If you're running a private community, Google Data Takeout will not offer you the ability to archive content from it. And this ability applies to Community Owners and Moderators only.
Google photos previously retained after deleting G+ accounts will now be deleted. See the FAQ for more.
There are no provisions offered for remaining in contact via Google/Google+ itself. You will have to establish external contact methods, much as we've been encouraging here for months.
Google+ content (mostly comments) on Blogger will be removed after the shutdown: "All your Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2, 2019."
*There are some interesting edge cases for G Suite users. Including products, service, and/or content which won't work or will be deleted. See the FAQ and its references.
Use of other Google services, we're assured, will not be affected.
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723
Thank you so much for this community
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job.
ah, I see you've found the FAQ too :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for your help with this, much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteThe FAQ at least implies that Google+ will be available for all G Suite users, although they left out G Suite for Non-profits (I assume they just consider that a special case of G Suite Education) and the legacy free G Suite plan.
ReplyDeleteAlso the FAQ still doesn't clarify whether or not cross-organization Google+ will continue to work.
To be honest : I don't think such a failure is in compliance with EU law.
ReplyDeleteSebastian Lasse They have mentioned that URLs will remain where legally mandated.
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