Share photos & videos

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

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

Before you get started

Share in a conversation

You can share directly to anyone with a Google Account if they're in your contacts or by searching their email address or telephone number. For anybody else, you can create a link to share.

If your contact'due south phone number isn't associated with their Google Account, you can help them find and connect with y'all. If your contact doesn't have a Google Account, you can transport them a link or share using some other 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, anthology, or video.
  4. Tap Share Share.
  5. Under "Send in Google Photos," select people to share with.
    • To share with one person, tap their proper noun.
    • To detect someone specific, tap Search . Enter their name, phone number, or email address.
    • To share with more than ane person, select multiple people.
      • (Optional) Add a message to go with your shared media.
  6. To share, tapTransport. This will create an ongoing conversation thread where you and the people you take shared with can add boosted photos, videos, comments, and likes over fourth dimension.

Tips:

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

You can also automatically share your entire library with someone.

Create a shared album

Important:

  • You 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 anybody else, y'all can create a link to share.
  • When y'all share a link to your album, anyone with the link can view and add to the anthology or photos. Learn 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 equally they're added.

Send a link or share to other apps

  1. On your mobile device, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Select a photo, anthology, or video.
  3. Tap Share Share.
  4. Nether "Share to apps," select another app to share to. Swipe left to notice more apps.
  5. To create and share a link, tap Create link.

Anyone that has the shared link will exist able to view the album. Learn how to alter your sharing options.

What happens when y'all share

  • When you lot transport to a contact in Google Photos:
    • Contacts you lot shared with get an in-app notification and a push notification from the app. The shared particular(due south) appear in their Sharing page.
    • When y'all share a new album or conversation with them, they'll also receive an electronic mail notification.
    • Their account contour photo or initial is added to the album or conversation and will appear faded until they view the album or conversation.
    • When they view the album or conversation, their business relationship profile photograph or initial volition announced in the activity view adjacent to the latest photos, comments, or likes they take viewed.
    • If they join a shared album or similar, comment, or add photos in a shared anthology or conversation, their profile image changes to their account profile photograph or initial
  • When you add photos or videos to albums or conversations, your account profile photo or initial volition appear adjacent to the latest photos you added.
  • If you share a video captured fully or partially in slow motility, others may exist able to view whatsoever function of the video at a slower speed in their own player.

What happens when someone shares with you

If your contact can't share their media, you lot can assist them find and connect with you lot.

  • When someone shares an album or conversation with you, you will receive an e-mail.
  • If you already use Google Photos, you will also receive an in-app notification and a push notification and the share volition announced in your Sharing page.
  • When you view the anthology or conversation, your business relationship contour photo or initial in the album will low-cal up and  announced next to the latest photos, comments, or likes you accept viewed.
  • If you join a shared album or similar, comment, or add photos in a shared album or chat, your business relationship contour photo or initial will appear next to the activeness you lot took.
  • If y'all call up someone is spamming you, you can block or report them. Learn more than most who can share with you.

Manage your conversations & albums

  1. On your mobile device, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. At the lesser, tap Sharing.
  3. You lot can access your shared albums and sharing activity, like comments and recently added photos. New sharing activity will be in assuming.

If you don't detect what y'all want, tapTestify more.

Review an album

  1. Open the album you lot shared.

  2. Click More thanMoreand then Options.

Go out an album or chat

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

To leave an album:

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

To get out a chat:

  1. Click the conversation.
  2. At the acme, 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 y'all accept 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 top right, click More 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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