Facebook is about to delete this secret group of photos from your phone
Any photos still in your 'synced from phone' folder will be deleted before 7 July - unless you extract the snaps or download Moments
FACEBOOK is about to delete a secret group of photos from your phone in a bid to nudge you towards adopting their Moments app.
The social media giant is set to delve into a private section of your Facebook photos and delete a series of snaps from a folder you probably never knew existed.
You probably never noticed them before because the pictures in question can be found in the 'synced from phone' section of your Facebook photos.
Back in 2012, Facebook created this private folder to automatically upload all photos taken on your phone to the social network - all to make it easier to share them at a later date.
But now Facebook is scrapping the use of this hidden folder to encourage you to use their new Moments app.
Any photos still in your 'synced from phone' folder will be deleted before 7 July - unless you extract the snaps or download Moments.
Rather than automatically syncing everything to a hidden folder and leaving it there, Moments scans any pictures you take to organise them into sections and recognise your friends' faces in them.
The app is designed to offer a private platform for picture sharing and storage amongst close friends, instead of broadcasting all of your photos publicly to everyone you've ever met.
The constantly-innovating social network recently introduced a new commenting system which allows users to leave short videos beneath posts.
Social media mavens are already able to use emojis and short gifs in place of boring old words, but now they’ll be able to go the whole hog and upload mini films.
The new system was designed at a Facebook “hackathon” held earlier this year, which is an event where the firm’s brightest talents work to design brand new features.
The social media giant also recently introduced a new system called Facebook Live, which allows individual users as well as famous folk to broadcast live footage of themselves to a global audience.
Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly “super pumped” about the feature and used it to shoot a historic live link-up with British astronaut Tim Peake and his colleagues aboard the International Space Station.