Share photos & videos

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

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

Earlier you get started

Share in a conversation

You can share directly to anyone with a Google Business relationship if they're in your contacts or by searching their email accost or phone number. For everyone else, you can create a link to share.

If your contact'due south phone number isn't associated with their Google Account, y'all can help them notice and connect with y'all. If your contact doesn't take a Google Business relationship, you 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 photograph, album, or video.
  4. Tap Share Share.
  5. Under "Ship in Google Photos," select people to share with.
    • To share with one person, tap their name.
    • To find someone specific, tap Search . Enter their name, phone number, or electronic mail address.
    • To share with more than one person, select multiple people.
      • (Optional) Add together a bulletin to go with your shared media.
  6. To share, tapSend. This will create an ongoing conversation thread where yous and the people you have shared with can add additional photos, videos, comments, and likes over fourth dimension.

Tips:

  • There is a twenty,000 photo limit on conversations.
  • To hibernate a suggested sharing contact, printing and concord their profile photo and tap Hibernate suggestion. To find them again to share something with them after, tap Search , enter their name, and tapTestify hidden suggestions.

Yous can also automatically share your entire library with someone.

Create a shared album

Important:

  • You tin share direct to anyone with a Google Account if they're in your contacts or past search using their electronic mail address or telephone number. For anybody else, you can create a link to share.
  • When you share a link to your anthology, anyone with the link tin view and add to the album or photos. Learn how shared anthology controls give your photos more than privacy.
  • If y'all share an album that automatically adds photos of face groups, anyone with access to the anthology 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, album, or video.
  3. Tap Share Share.
  4. Under "Share to apps," select another 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 anthology. Larn how to change your sharing options.

What happens when y'all share

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

What happens when someone shares with you

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

  • When someone shares an album or conversation with you lot, you lot will receive an email.
  • If you already use Google Photos, yous will besides receive an in-app notification and a push button notification and the share will appear in your Sharing folio.
  • When you lot view the anthology or conversation, your account contour photo or initial in the album will calorie-free upwardly and  appear side by side to the latest photos, comments, or likes you have viewed.
  • If yous join a shared album or similar, comment, or add photos in a shared album or conversation, your account contour photograph or initial will appear side by side to the action you took.
  • If you call up someone is spamming y'all, you can block or written report them. Learn more about who tin share with you.

Manage your conversations & albums

  1. On your mobile device, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. At the bottom, tap Sharing.
  3. Y'all tin can access your shared albums and sharing activity, similar comments and recently added photos. New sharing activeness volition be in bold.

If you don't find what you desire, tapBear witness more than.

Review an album

  1. Open up the album you shared.

  2. Click More thanMoreand then Options.

Leave an anthology or conversation

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

To exit an album:

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

To leave a conversation:

  1. Click the conversation.
  2. At the top, click and then side by side to the names of the people in the chat.
  3. Adjacent to your proper name, click Leave.

Remove items from shared albums & conversations

Yous tin can remove photos, videos, comments, and likes you have added to conversations and shared albums.

To remove photos and videos:

  1. In a shared anthology or conversation thread, click on the photograph or video.
  2. At the pinnacle 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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