Share photos & videos

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

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

Before y'all get started

Share in a chat

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

If your contact's telephone number isn't associated with their Google Account, yous can aid them find and connect with you. If your contact doesn't take a Google Account, you tin can ship 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 Business relationship.
  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 1 person, tap their proper noun.
    • To notice someone specific, tap Search . Enter their proper noun, phone number, or electronic mail address.
    • To share with more than one person, select multiple people.
      • (Optional) Add a bulletin to go with your shared media.
  6. To share, tapSend. This will create an ongoing conversation thread where y'all and the people y'all take shared with tin can add additional photos, videos, comments, and likes over fourth dimension.

Tips:

  • In that location is a 20,000 photograph limit on conversations.
  • To hide a suggested sharing contact, press and concur their profile photo and tap Hibernate suggestion. To find them again to share something with them later, tap Search , enter their name, and tapShow hidden suggestions.

You can besides automatically share your entire library with someone.

Create a shared album

Important:

  • You lot can share directly to anyone with a Google Account if they're in your contacts or by search using their email address or phone number. For everyone else, you 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 album or photos. Learn how shared album controls give your photos more privacy.
  • If you share an anthology that automatically adds photos of face groups, anyone with access to the album tin can view photos as 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. Under "Share to apps," select some other app to share to. Swipe left to find more apps.
  5. To create and share a link, tap Create link.

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

What happens when you share

  • When you lot send to a contact in Google Photos:
    • Contacts you shared with go an in-app notification and a push notification from the app. The shared item(s) appear in their Sharing page.
    • When you share a new album or chat with them, they'll too receive an email notification.
    • Their business relationship profile photo or initial is added to the anthology or chat and will appear faded until they view the anthology or chat.
    • When they view the album or chat, their account profile photo or initial will announced in the action view side by side to the latest photos, comments, or likes they have viewed.
    • If they bring together a shared album or like, annotate, or add photos in a shared album or conversation, their profile image changes to their account profile photo or initial
  • When you add photos or videos to albums or conversations, your account profile photograph or initial will announced next to the latest photos you lot added.
  • If you share a video captured fully or partially in ho-hum motion, others may be able to view any office of the video at a slower speed in their own histrion.

What happens when someone shares with you lot

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

  • When someone shares an anthology or conversation with you, you will receive an email.
  • If you already utilise Google Photos, you will besides receive an in-app notification and a push notification and the share will appear in your Sharing page.
  • When y'all view the anthology or conversation, your business relationship profile photo or initial in the album will lite up and  announced side by side to the latest photos, comments, or likes you accept viewed.
  • If y'all bring together a shared album or like, annotate, or add together photos in a shared album or chat, your account profile photograph or initial will appear next to the activity you took.
  • If you call back someone is spamming y'all, y'all can block or report them. Learn more about who can share with y'all.

Manage your conversations & albums

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

If you don't find what you want, tapShow more.

Review an album

  1. Open the album yous shared.

  2. Click MoreMoreand then Options.

Leave an album or conversation

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

To leave an anthology:

  1. Click the album.
  2. At the top right, click More 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 have added to conversations and shared albums.

To remove photos and videos:

  1. In a shared album or chat thread, click on the photograph or video.
  2. At the summit correct, click More Moreand thenRemove.

To remove comments and likes:

  1. In a shared anthology or chat thread, click on the comment or like.
  2. Click Delete.

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