Share photos & videos

You tin share photos, videos, albums, and movies with whatever of your contacts, fifty-fifty if they don't utilise the Google Photos app.

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

Earlier you become started

Share in a conversation

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

If your contact's phone number isn't associated with their Google Account, you tin can help them find and connect with yous. If your contact doesn't take a Google Account, you can send 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. Nether "Send in Google Photos," select people to share with.
    • To share with one person, tap their name.
    • To notice someone specific, tap Search . Enter their name, telephone number, or e-mail address.
    • To share with more than one 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 you have shared with tin add boosted photos, videos, comments, and likes over time.

Tips:

  • In that location is a twenty,000 photo limit on conversations.
  • To hide a suggested sharing contact, printing and concur their profile photo and tap Hide suggestion. To discover them again to share something with them later, tap Search , enter their proper name, and tapBear witness subconscious suggestions.

You can also automatically share your unabridged library with someone.

Create a shared album

Important:

  • You 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 tin create a link to share.
  • When y'all share a link to your album, anyone with the link tin can view and add to the album or photos. Learn how shared album controls give your photos more than privacy.
  • If you share an album that automatically adds photos of face groups, anyone with admission to the album tin 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. Nether "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 volition exist able to view the album. Learn how to change your sharing options.

What happens when you share

  • When you send to a contact in Google Photos:
    • Contacts you shared with get an in-app notification and a push notification from the app. The shared particular(south) appear in their Sharing page.
    • When you share a new album or conversation with them, they'll also receive an email notification.
    • Their business relationship profile photo or initial is added to the album or chat and will appear faded until they view the anthology or conversation.
    • When they view the album or conversation, their account profile photograph or initial will announced in the activity view next to the latest photos, comments, or likes they have viewed.
    • If they join a shared album or like, comment, or add together photos in a shared album or conversation, their profile paradigm changes to their account contour photo or initial
  • When you add photos or videos to albums or conversations, your account contour photo or initial will announced side by side to the latest photos you added.
  • If you share a video captured fully or partially in dull movement, others may be able to view any function of the video at a slower speed in their ain histrion.

What happens when someone shares with yous

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

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

Manage your conversations & albums

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

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

Review an album

  1. Open the album you lot shared.

  2. Click MoreMoreand then Options.

Leave an album or conversation

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

To leave an album:

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

To exit a conversation:

  1. Click the conversation.
  2. At the pinnacle, click and then next to the names of the people in the conversation.
  3. Side by side to your name, click Get out.

Remove items from shared albums & conversations

You can remove photos, videos, comments, and likes yous have added to conversations and shared albums.

To remove photos and videos:

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

To remove comments and likes:

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

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