Bring memories to life with Personal Cloud 26.5. What's new in Synchronoss Personal Cloud 26.5. Photos are more than files stored in the cloud. They capture the people, places, and moments that matter most, and for operators, they represent one of the clearest opportunities to turn a storage product into a more engaging subscriber experience. With Synchronoss Personal Cloud 26.5, Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. is taking another step in that direction. This release is centered on helping users rediscover their content more naturally, more emotionally, and with less effort. The headline improvements include Animated Monthly Memories, a Memories carousel on the home screen, and a more immediate and personal search experience, with additional polish across the experience to make the platform clearer, faster, and more engaging. A month of photos, told as a story The most important addition in 26.5 is Animated Monthly Memories. This is not just another slideshow or a reshuffling of recent images. It is a chapter-based, animated monthly highlight that turns the previous month's photos into a story, using themed sections such as intro, moments, people, places, styles, milestones, active day, and closing, all presented through a card-based experience that flows into full-screen imagery with built-in narrative and personalization. That matters because it changes the way users experience their cloud. Instead of opening an app and seeing a static library of content, they are presented with something that feels curated and alive. A month of photos becomes a recap they can sit with and revisit, not just a set of thumbnails to scroll past. For operators and prospective buyers, this is where the value becomes clear. Animated Monthly Memories helps transform the cloud from a utility into an engagement surface. It gives subscribers a recurring reason to come back, creates more emotionally resonant touchpoints, and reinforces the value of keeping personal content in a branded operator cloud rather than treating it as passive backup. This release also builds on the broader progression of the Memories experience. Over time, the platform has moved from basic slideshows to richer server-driven recipes, music-backed memories, web support, and more personalized formats. Animated Monthly Memories is an important next step in that evolution because it packages curation, presentation, and repeat engagement into one experience. A home screen that leads with what matters 26.5 also brings Memories directly to the home screen through a dedicated carousel. Rather than requiring users to navigate into albums or browse through folders to find something meaningful, the app now surfaces memorable moments much earlier in the experience. From a consumer perspective, that makes the app feel more personal right away. The home screen becomes less about management and more about rediscovery. It feels closer to the way people actually think about their photos: not as files to organize, but as memories to revisit. From an operator perspective, the home screen carousel is important because visibility drives engagement. When meaningful content is placed front and center, the cloud has a better chance of becoming part of the subscriber's ongoing digital life instead of remaining something they only think about when they need to restore a device or free up space. That is also why home screen evolution has become one of the anchor themes in the roadmap. It is not just a visual refresh. It is part of a broader shift toward making the home screen an engagement and value engine for the platform. Search that finds the moment As users store more photos and videos, discovery becomes just as important as backup. In 26.5, search is made more prominent in the experience, and the photo detail view now includes a People section that helps users identify, name, and navigate directly to photos of the people who matter most. This is an important improvement because it reduces friction at exactly the right moment. When someone is looking at a photo, they can immediately see recognized faces, add a missing name, or jump into that person's album from the same context instead of backing out and starting over elsewhere in the app. That makes the cloud easier to use, but it also makes it feel smarter and more personal. Search becomes less about typing a keyword into a utility and more about reconnecting with people, relationships, and shared experiences. For operators, that is a meaningful distinction. Search and tagging are core to unlocking the value of growing media libraries, especially as the volume of content stored in cloud services continues to expand. The easier it is for users to find what they care about, the more useful and sticky the service becomes over time. The supporting improvements matter too While Animated Monthly Memories, the home screen Memories carousel, and the improved search experience are the hero features of 26.5, the release also includes a set of supporting enhancements that improve the overall experience. These include Genius style preview thumbnails, updated information banners, an updated filters carousel on the home screen, the latest grid and list components, new video filters, Live Photos filtering on iOS, and backup improvements such as prioritizing media before messages on Android and using background refresh tasks for backup on iOS. Individually, these are smaller updates. Together, they help make the product feel more polished, more understandable, and more useful in everyday use. That kind of incremental quality matters because operators and buyers are not only evaluating whether a platform has compelling hero features. They are also evaluating whether the overall experience feels modern, coherent, and ready to support long-term engagement. The same is true for Genius. In addition to preview improvements in 26.5, the broader work around Genius continues to expand the entertainment and differentiation story of the platform, including model updates and support for applying styles more flexibly, even beyond single-face constraints. A more meaningful cloud experience Synchronoss Personal Cloud 26.5 reflects an important product principle: the future of personal cloud is not just about storing content safely, but about making that content easier to rediscover, more enjoyable to engage with, and more valuable to the subscriber over time. For users, that means a cloud experience that feels more emotional, more immediate, and more personal. For operators and prospective buyers, it means a branded cloud platform that can create repeat engagement, strengthen perceived value, and open the door to richer differentiated experiences in the future. That is the real story of 26.5. It is not simply a release with a few feature updates. It is a release that moves the product further beyond storage and backup and closer to what modern subscribers actually want from a personal cloud experience: a place where their digital lives feel active, relevant, and worth returning to.

Leading Philippine Telecom provider selects Synchronoss to deliver Personal Cloud solutions to 54 million customers. Globe Telecom, Inc. set to offer branded Personal Cloud service enabling users to back up, manage, and optimize all types of digital content. BRIDGEWATER, N.J., May 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. ("Synchronoss") today announced that Globe Telecom, Inc. is set to offer Synchronoss Personal Cloud(TM) to its more than 54 million customers. Globe operates one of the largest mobile, fixed-line, and broadband networks in the Philippines. "By partnering with Synchronoss, we are giving them a secure, seamless way to store, manage, and elevate their personal content." "This partnership with Globe strengthens our growing presence in Asia and underscores the increasing global demand for operator-led personal cloud solutions," "The addition of Genius AI gives Globe customers a robust way to secure their digital lives while also creating and enhancing their memories." "Our customers rely on their mobile devices to manage every part of their daily lives," "By partnering with Synchronoss, we are giving them a secure, seamless way to store, manage, and elevate their personal content." "This partnership with Globe strengthens our growing presence in Asia and underscores the increasing global demand for operator-led personal cloud solutions," "The addition of Genius AI gives Globe customers a robust way to secure their digital lives while also creating and enhancing their memories." "Our customers rely on their mobile devices to manage every part of their daily lives," "By partnering with Synchronoss, we are giving them a secure, seamless way to store, manage, and elevate their personal content." Using Synchronoss' white-label cloud technology, Globe will offer its customers a secure, easy-to-use personal cloud service to back up, synchronize, and manage their photos, videos, files, and other digital content. The service will also include Synchronoss Genius, a suite of AI-powered tools that enhance and optimize photos with filters, upscaling, and effects. As part of the launch, Globe will deliver an entry-tier 50GB cloud offer at an accessible price point for a 90-day introductory trial, followed by premium plans ranging from 50GB to 2TB. These paid tiers will be available both as standalone add-ons and bundled offers for select customer segments. "This partnership with Globe strengthens our growing presence in Asia and underscores the increasing global demand for operator-led personal cloud solutions," said Pat Doran, CEO of Synchronoss. "The addition of Genius AI gives Globe customers a robust way to secure their digital lives while also creating and enhancing their memories." In addition to Genius AI, Synchronoss Personal Cloud also includes Space Saver, enabling Globe customers to free up space on their devices, without losing content. This helps users access more digital services without storage constraints, especially as mobile devices are instrumental in capturing and managing all types of content. "Our customers rely on their mobile devices to manage every part of their daily lives," said Roche Vandenberghe, Chief Marketing Officer at Globe. "By partnering with Synchronoss, we are giving them a secure, seamless way to store, manage, and elevate their personal content." About Globe Telecom, Inc. Globe Telecom, Inc. is a leading digital platform in the Philippines with interests in telecommunications, fintech, venture building, shared services, and digital marketing. It is listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange under the symbol GLO. The company delivers a full suite of mobile, broadband, data, and managed services to meet the needs of consumers and businesses. A UN Global Compact Participant, Globe is the first publicly listed Philippine firm with approved near- and long-term science-based targets under the SBTi. It was named one of TIME and Statista's Most Sustainable Companies in 2025. Its back-to-back inclusion in the Fortune Southeast Asia 500 in 2024 and 2025 affirms its growth and leadership. Its principals are Ayala Corporation and Singtel, prominent industry leaders in the region. About Synchronoss Synchronoss Technologies, a global leader in personal Cloud solutions, empowers service providers to establish secure and meaningful connections with their subscribers. Our SaaS Cloud platform simplifies onboarding processes and fosters subscriber engagement using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other advanced features, resulting in enhanced revenue streams, reduced expenses, and faster time-to-market. Millions of subscribers trust Synchronoss to safeguard their most cherished memories and important digital content. Explore how our Cloud-focused solutions redefine the way you connect with your digital world at www.synchronoss.com.