Facebook’s Stand-Alone Moments App Will Experience Its Final Moments Feb. 25

Users will be able to retrieve all of their images through May

Take a moment to bid farewell to Facebook’s Moments stand-alone application, as the social network confirmed that it will be shuttered Feb. 25.

Facebook introduced Moments in June 2015 as a way for people to consolidate and organize their photos from events by syncing photos taken by Facebook users to private folders and giving them the option of privately syncing those images with friends.

In January 2016, the social network ended its support of photo syncing, moving all of users’ backed-up images to the Moments app.

Facebook created a stand-alone desktop version of Moments in April 2017, but it had limited functionality, only enabling users to see albums they created and who those albums have been shared with.

However,

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