Microsoft will soon end the integration of OneDrive with the Gallery app on Samsung devices

Microsoft has confirmed that the Samsung Gallery app You will lose the ability to sync your backup to OneDrive starting September 30 of this year.

New users will not be able to directly link the Samsung Gallery and OneDrive applications to save a copy of their photos and videos to the Microsoft cloud.

This change will take place on September 30, when users who had previously used sync “will need to update the camera app settings to continue backing up new photos and videos as well as to access, through the OneDrive app, any photos that have been backed up,” as Microsoft points out from its support page.

The company clarifies that files still stored in the user’s OneDrive account They will remain without being deleted or modifiedand users will still be able to access existing backups through OneDrive or through the onedrive.com website.

Starting in September, by discontinuing OneDrive support in Samsung’s Gallery app, Microsoft only leaves the way to use the OneDrive ‘app’log in with your own Microsoft account and activate the ‘camera backup’ function to ensure access to the user’s photos and videos that are automatically synchronized with the Microsoft cloud service. An experience offered by many other services such as Dropbox, Google Photos and others.

Direct integration between Samsung Gallery and Microsoft OneDrive has been available to Samsung mobile owners since 2019, as part of a strategic alliance that was announced with the presentation of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and with the aim of unifying its productivity ecosystems and cloud services.

In fact, Korean manufacturer closed its own storage service (Samsung Cloud Gallery Sync) and offered all its users a tool to directly migrate all photos and videos to OneDrive, making it the standard backup service for Samsung devices.