Samsung Gallery Is Ending OneDrive Sync on September 30, and What You Need to Do Now
If you back up your Galaxy photos directly to Microsoft OneDrive through Samsung Gallery, your workflow has an expiration date, and it is now officially confirmed.
Microsoft updated its Samsung Gallery sync support page this week with the final deadline: September 30, 2026, landing roughly two months after the Samsung Messages sunset in July.
After that date, the direct integration between Samsung Gallery and OneDrive is gone for good.
What Actually Happens on September 30
According to Android Authority, after September 30, 2026, all photos stored in OneDrive will disappear from Samsung Gallery’s view, but critically, those photos will not be deleted.
They will still exist on the OneDrive website and on any device where the OneDrive app is installed.
As the report confirms, Samsung is replacing Samsung Gallery’s OneDrive integration with its own cloud backup system, moving photo backups away from Microsoft’s infrastructure and back into Samsung’s ecosystem.
The distinction matters: this is a gallery integration ending, not a data deletion event. Anything already synced to OneDrive stays in OneDrive; it simply will not be visible inside Samsung Gallery after the deadline.
While some users might use this platform shift to jump to Google Photos for its advanced AI organization features, you can easily stick with Microsoft’s ecosystem by tweaking how your device handles backups.
How to Keep OneDrive Backup Working After September 30
To keep backing up Galaxy photos to OneDrive after the integration ends, users will need to use the OneDrive app directly instead of Samsung Gallery.
Microsoft’s updated support page outlines the exact steps:
- Open the OneDrive app and sign in with your Microsoft account
- Tap your Account Profile in the top-left corner
- Select Camera backup
- Confirm the correct account is selected
- Toggle Camera backup on
- Grant photo and video access if prompted
Once those steps are complete, new photos and videos will sync automatically to OneDrive going forward, just through the standalone app rather than the gallery integration.
What Samsung Is Building Instead
Samsung’s replacement is its own native cloud photo backup, a logical move as the company pushes to deepen its ecosystem rather than route users through third-party services.
Exactly when that native solution rolls out and what storage tiers it carries has not yet been announced.
Given the pace of Samsung’s sofAtware changes this year, expect more details alongside the One UI 9 launch at Samsung Unpacked on July 22.
