Share photos & videos

You can share photos, videos, albums, and movies with any of your contacts, even if they don't use the Google Photos app.

You can share photos, videos, albums, and movies with any of your contacts, even if they don't use the Google Photos app.

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Share in a conversation

You can share directly to anyone with a Google Business relationship if they're in your contacts or past searching their email address or phone number. For anybody else, yous can create a link to share.

If your contact'south phone number isn't associated with their Google Account, you can assistance them find and connect with you lot. If your contact doesn't take a Google Business relationship, y'all can send them a link or share using another app instead.

To share with other people in a conversation:

  1. On your mobile device, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. Select a photo, album, or video.
  4. Tap Share Share.
  5. Under "Transport in Google Photos," select people to share with.
    • To share with ane person, tap their name.
    • To find someone specific, tap Search . Enter their name, telephone number, or email address.
    • To share with more than than ane person, select multiple people.
      • (Optional) Add a message to go with your shared media.
  6. To share, tapSend. This will create an ongoing conversation thread where you lot and the people y'all accept shared with can add additional photos, videos, comments, and likes over time.

Tips:

  • There is a twenty,000 photograph limit on conversations.
  • To hide a suggested sharing contact, printing and hold their contour photo and tap Hide suggestion. To find them again to share something with them later on, tap Search , enter their proper name, and tapShow hidden suggestions.

You can also automatically share your entire library with someone.

Create a shared album

Important:

  • Y'all tin can share directly to anyone with a Google Account if they're in your contacts or by search using their email accost or phone number. For everyone else, y'all can create a link to share.
  • When y'all share a link to your album, anyone with the link tin view and add to the album or photos. Larn how shared album controls give your photos more privacy.
  • If you share an album that automatically adds photos of face groups, anyone with access to the album can view photos as they're added.

Transport a link or share to other apps

  1. On your mobile device, open up the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Select a photograph, album, or video.
  3. Tap Share Share.
  4. Under "Share to apps," select another app to share to. Swipe left to find more than apps.
  5. To create and share a link, tap Create link.

Anyone that has the shared link will be able to view the anthology. Learn how to change your sharing options.

What happens when you share

  • When you send to a contact in Google Photos:
    • Contacts y'all shared with become an in-app notification and a button notification from the app. The shared detail(south) appear in their Sharing page.
    • When yous share a new album or conversation with them, they'll also receive an email notification.
    • Their business relationship profile photograph or initial is added to the album or chat and will appear faded until they view the album or conversation.
    • When they view the album or conversation, their account contour photo or initial will appear in the action view next to the latest photos, comments, or likes they have viewed.
    • If they join a shared album or similar, comment, or add photos in a shared album or conversation, their profile image changes to their account profile photo or initial
  • When y'all add photos or videos to albums or conversations, your account profile photograph or initial will appear next to the latest photos yous added.
  • If y'all share a video captured fully or partially in slow move, others may be able to view any function of the video at a slower speed in their own player.

What happens when someone shares with you

If your contact tin can't share their media, y'all tin help them detect and connect with you.

  • When someone shares an anthology or chat with you, yous will receive an email.
  • If y'all already use Google Photos, y'all volition also receive an in-app notification and a push notification and the share volition announced in your Sharing page.
  • When you view the album or chat, your account profile photo or initial in the album volition light up and  appear side by side to the latest photos, comments, or likes you accept viewed.
  • If you bring together a shared album or like, comment, or add photos in a shared album or conversation, your account profile photo or initial will appear next to the action yous took.
  • If y'all think someone is spamming you, you can block or report them. Learn more near who can share with yous.

Manage your conversations & albums

Review an anthology

  1. Open the anthology you shared.

  2. Click MoreMoreand then Options.

Exit an album or conversation

When you leave a shared album or chat, all of the photos, videos, comments, and likes you have added will be removed.

To leave an album:

  1. Click the anthology.
  2. At the top right, click More than Moreand thenLeave album.

To leave a conversation:

  1. Click the conversation.
  2. At the top, click and then next to the names of the people in the conversation.
  3. Next to your name, click Leave.

Remove items from shared albums & conversations

You can remove photos, videos, comments, and likes you take added to conversations and shared albums.

To remove photos and videos:

  1. In a shared album or conversation thread, click on the photo or video.
  2. At the summit right, click More than Moreand thenRemove.

To remove comments and likes:

  1. In a shared album or conversation thread, click on the annotate or like.
  2. Click Delete.

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