Tech giant Facebook is getting a lot of flak from its users over the company's decision to force them to download the Moments app. Facebook has announced that users have until July 7 to download Moments. The company said users who fail to do so risk losing all their photos that have been synched from their smartphones to Facebook.

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In a notification sent by the social networking giant to all of its users, the company said, "Photos you have privately synched from your phone to Facebook will be deleted soon. Earlier this year, they were moved to Moments, a new app from Facebook. The Moments app lets you organize and privately share photos from your phone and download or delete photos you've synced to Facebook."

Facebook warned that users have until July 7 to download the Moments app, or the photos they have synced will be deleted. The ultimatum does not cover photos or videos that are shared on Facebook but are not saved under the synced album. Additionally, Facebook is also allowing users to download all their photos that will be deleted should they decide not to download the Moments app.

The Facebook Moments app was launched in June 2015. The app can group a user's photos stored on a phone based on the date they were taken. The app also uses facial recognition technology to determine which friends of the user are in the photos. The whole idea behind the Moments app is to give users an easy way to share and receive relevant photos from their friends.

Since Facebook started promoting the app to its users, Moments has become the top downloaded free app on the Apple Store. It is ranked second place on Google Play for the Android platform, where the most downloaded app is Facebook's standalone Messenger app.

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