Published 09:42 IST, February 2nd 2019

Google+ Sunsetting For Good On April 2: What You Need To Know?

Google’s social platform Google+ is now all set to go away starting April 2, 2019. In this situation, if you are a Google+ user, it should not hurt to maintain data backups from right now.

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Google’s social platform Google+ is w all set to go away starting April 2, 2019. In this situation, if you are a Google+ user, it should t hurt to maintain data backups from right w. You could downlo all of your Google+ data using a very simple approach.

In case you are looking at downloing your Google+ data, you could navigate to this p which would contain all your data (pre-selected) after you log-in with your Google+ credentials. After this, select desired file you prefer to see your data in and select Next/ Create Archive to get all your data.

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This is t all, multiple functionality of Google+ would also be phased out starting from as early as February 4, 2019. features that would be done away with include likes of making new Google+ ps, profiles,  and communities. Also, beginning March 7, Google+ comments on Blogger and or websites would also be eliminated forever.

This essentially marks beginning of end of Google+ which once was seen as Facebook’s closest competitor.

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“We have also decided to accelerate sunsetting of consumer Google+ from August 2019 to April 2019. While we recognize re are implications for developers, we want to ensure protection of our users,” stated David Thacker who is Vice-President of Product Manment at G-Suite; in a recent blog post.

w, you could also alternatively here to navigate to official Google support p to check out detailed information on downloing various s of Google+ saved data.

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If you are new to Google+ sunsetting development, n it is worth understanding that post discovery of a second bug focussing on Google + API, folks at Google decided to fast track axing of Google+. This bug has been neutralized by Google’s engineers and re is cause of concern for users at this point in time, situation.

Also Re: Did New Google+ Bug Impact User Data: Company vances Service Closure Date To April 2019

Also Re: After Reports Of Data Being Compromised, Google Releases Statement Saying y Are Shutting Down Google+ For Consumers

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09:00 IST, February 2nd 2019