In order to higher handle information for each house customers and enterprise wants, Google is introducing the brand new Drive app, which is slated to merge and exchange the options of the outgoing Drive File Stream and Backup and Sync apps.

In a recent blog post, Google defined that the brand new Drive app is designed to be a unified shopper that allows you to share and sync your information rapidly and simply throughout all of your gadgets and within the cloud. For the previous few years, house customers have relied on the Backup and Sync app for syncing and importing information (which changed the earlier Drive app back in 2017/2018), whereas companies relied on the Drive File Stream app to handle business storage wants.

Now, Google is trying to streamline its storage options with the brand new Drive app, which can exchange each of its current house and enterprise apps with a single piece of software program, with help for each Windows PCs and Macs.

Google says the brand new Drive will incorporate all the perfect options of its earlier options together with the flexibility to add and sync photographs and movies to Google Photos and/or Google Drive, sync exterior storage gadgets with knowledge from the cloud, and mirror content material between the cloud and your native gadgets, so any probably essential information will likely be quicker and simpler to entry.

The new Drive app will even include new help for shared folders in Google Drive, which was not beforehand out there within the Backup and Sync app. There can also be mentioned to be some form of scheduling integration between the Google Drive app and each Google Meet and Microsoft Outlook.

Notably, it seems Google is hoping to transition customers relatively rapidly from its previous apps to the brand new Drive app, with Google saying that it’ll start surfacing alerts asking Backup and Sync customers to change to the Drive app “in the coming weeks,” with Google recommending customers to completely change over by September.

After September, Google says Backup and Sync customers will obtain a notification saying that they might want to transition the Drive app with the intention to proceed syncing information, with the Backup and Sync app slated to cease performing on October 1.

While being pressured to change from one app to a different is all the time a little bit annoying, with the brand new Drive app incorporating the options of two apps into one, the transition shouldn’t be too cumbersome and will even assist folks release some area on their taskbars and docks. Meanwhile, enterprise customers can try extra detailed data on what this transition means for them here.

Google says the transition to the brand new Drive app will start subsequent week beginning on July 19, with continued prompts and notifications being despatched out to each Backup and Sync and Drive File Stream customers all through the summer season.