Summary
If you’re one of the few who know about and take advantage of AT&T’s Photo Storage feature, which is a free cloud backup option similar to Google Photos or iCloud, we have some bad news. This week, AT&T and its partner Asurion announced that the service will stop working in October.
Powered by Asurion, AT&T’s Photo Storage offers unlimited full-size backups (depending on your mobile plan) and is wildly helpful. My plan gets unlimited full-size backups, but some users may only have 5 or 10GB, or options to pay for more storage. It’s essentially just like any other backup service, only for many, it is entirely free and unlimited.
AT&T Photo Storage is available for iOS or Android, and if you’ve taken advantage of it for years on end, it’ll disappear from app stores and stop backing up your files starting October 20th, 2025.
Transfer Your Photos or Video by February 2026
While that’s the bad news, we do have a little bit of good news. Sure, by the end of October, anyone with auto-backup enabled will notice that the service no longer backs up and saves all their photos and videos. At that time, it will be removed from app stores. Thankfully, while it’ll no longer back up your content, you actually have until February 1st, 2026, to export your photos and videos to another service.
Yes, the service will officially die onFebruary 1st, 2026, and if you haven’t saved your cloud storage contents elsewhere, they’ll be deleted forever. The service shuts down permanently on that date. If you wait and miss the deadline, your cloud storage will be unrecoverable.
In the meantime,AT&T and Asurion have a helpful guideon how to keep your stuff. Users need to sign into the AT&T web gallery, create an archive, or download and export their entire photo/video collection. It’s worth mentioning that during the archive export process, the service will create 5GB download files at a time. So, if you have tons of content saved, it could take a while and multiple downloads.
Your best bet is to transfer everything from your AT&T Cloud Photo Storage to a computer, as you’ll likely not have enough space on your phone. From here, you can then use iCloud, Google Photos, or one of the manycloud storage alternativesavailable these days. And hey, now might be agreat time to try Google Photos, as it’s packed with features and now has a bunch of neat new AI tools to turn photos into video. Just make sure youhave enough storageor pay for extra space.
