Google Plus Shuts Down On 2 April 2019

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Google Plus for personal accounts will shut down on Saturday, 2 April 2019.

The company announced this last week and said consumers should download Google Plus data, before April, if they wished to.

“On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts,” Google said in a blog post on 30 January.

Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and Google+ pages will be deleted too. “You can download and save your content, just make sure to do so before April,” said the post.

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Google, however, assures that photos and videos ever backed up in Google Photos won’t be deleted.

From February 4, you can’t create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities or events.

Google announced in October 2018 that it was shutting down the consumer version of Google+ after it discovered a bug that exposed the data of 500,000 users. Google, which also cited “low usage” as a reason to sunset the platform, said the bug was detected in March 2018.

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