Xiaomi’s Gallery Sync shutting down, photos can be transferred to Google Photos

It seems that Xiaomi is planning to discontinue the Gallery Sync feature of Xiaomi Cloud. Developer Kacper Skrzypek discovered a draft announcement for this, but the company is yet to make it official.

For those unfamiliar, Gallery Sync gave Xiaomi users 5GB of free cloud storage that could hold photos and videos. But if this is the first time you hear of this, you have nothing to worry about.

As for those who do use the feature, Xiaomi has apparently prepared a way to transfer your photos and videos over to Google Photos. And if you don’t want to do that you will have the option of…