Does Famly Delete Your Child's Photos When They Leave Nursery?

As nursery comes to an end, this is the worry that surfaces: when we leave, do the Famly photos disappear? Here's the honest version, including the bits nobody can promise you.

What's actually certain

Famly is run by your nursery, not by you. Your child's photos and videos live on the nursery's account, and your full access is tied to your child being on the register. When they leave, your account is normally downgraded: you usually keep your child's profile and the photos tagged to it, but messages and newsfeed updates go.

Whether Famly then deletes the underlying files, and when, comes down to the nursery's own settings and data policies, not something published for parents, so I won't guess at it. But the practical truth is simpler and more important: once your account is downgraded, the photos get much harder to reach. No new posts arrive, and whatever's left can only be saved one at a time.

What you can't bank on

• A fixed timetable. Some nurseries leave full access open for a few weeks as a courtesy; some cut it back on the last day; some remove old families in a periodic tidy-up. You can't predict which.
• The nursery keeping a copy for you. There's no obligation to, and a leaving PDF or a handful of emailed photos isn't the same as the full-quality originals.
• An easy second chance. Once the account is downgraded, whether the older feed stays visible is down to the nursery.

The one reliable move

Save everything while you still have full access, ideally weeks before the last day.

1. On a computer, sign in at app.famly.co and check you can see the whole history, not just recent posts.
2. Save it all at full quality. One at a time works but is slow; NurseryDownloader pulls every photo and video in one click, straight to your computer, nothing uploaded anywhere. The free trial covers 20 downloads.
3. Back the folder up twice, a cloud account and a drive.

If your child has already left and you can still see the whole feed, treat it as borrowed time and grab everything this week. Future you, making a photo book when they're seven, will be grateful.

Related

• How to download photos from the Famly app
• The full walkthrough: How to download all your Famly photos
• What happens to your child's photos when they leave nursery?

Read next: how to save your child's Famly learning journey.