Google to Delete Album Archive and Hangouts Photos in July
Google Hangouts Album Archive is being sunset and will no longer exist after July 19, 2023. Some content only available in Album Archive will be deleted including “rare cases like small thumbnail photos and album comments or likes”, “some Google Hangouts data from Album Archive”, and “Background images uploaded in the Gmail theme picker prior to 2018”. Users can use Google Takeout to download a copy of their Album Archive data before it gets deleted.