Share photos and videos

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

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

Before you start

Share in a conversation

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, you tin create a link to share.

If your contact'due south phone number isn't associated with their Google Account, you lot can help them notice and connect with you. If your contact doesn't have a Google Account, 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 Business relationship.
  3. Select a photo, album or video.
  4. Tap Share Share.
  5. Nether 'Transport 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, telephone number or email address.
    • To share with more than one person, select multiple people.
      • (Optional) Add together a message to go with your shared media.
  6. To share, tapSend. This will create an ongoing chat thread where you and the people who you have shared with tin can add together additional photos, videos, comments and likes over time.

Tips:

  • At that place is a twenty,000 photograph limit on conversations.
  • To hide a suggested sharing contact, press and agree their contour photograph and tap Hide suggestion. To find them again to share something with them later, tap Search , enter their name and tapShow subconscious suggestions.

Y'all tin also automatically share your entire library with someone.

Create a shared album

Of import:

  • You tin can share directly to anyone with a Google Business relationship if they're in your contacts or past search using their email address or phone number. For everyone else, yous can create a link to share.
  • When you share a link to your album, anyone with the link tin view and add together to the album or photos. Learn how shared anthology controls give your photos more privacy.
  • If you share an album that automatically adds photos of face groups, anyone with access to the album tin can view photos as they're added.

Ship a link or share to other apps

  1. On your mobile device, open 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 apps.
  5. To create and share a link, tap Create link.

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

What happens when you lot share

  • When you send to a contact in Google Photos:
    • Contacts who you shared with go an in-app notification and a push button notification from the app. The shared item(southward) appear in their Sharing page.
    • When you share a new anthology or conversation with them, they'll as well receive an email notification.
    • Their account profile photo 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 profile photo or initial will appear in the activeness view next to the latest photos, comments or likes that they have viewed.
    • If they bring together a shared album or similar, comment, or add together 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 contour photo or initial will appear side by side to the latest photos that you added.
  • If you share a video captured fully or partially in slow movement, others may exist able to view whatever office of the video at a slower speed in their own role player.

What happens when someone shares with you?

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

  • When someone shares an album or conversation with yous, you lot volition receive an email.
  • If yous already use Google Photos, you lot will also receive an in-app notification and a push button notification and the share will appear in your Sharing page.
  • When you view the album or conversation, your business relationship profile photo or initial in the album will light upwardly and  appear next to the latest photos, comments or likes that you take viewed.
  • If you join a shared album or like, comment or add photos in a shared album or chat, your account contour photo or initial will appear side by side to the action you lot took.
  • If you retrieve that someone is spamming you, yous can block or report them. Learn more about who can share with you.

Manage your conversations and albums

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

If you don't find what you want, tapProve more than.

Review an anthology

  1. Open the album that you shared.

  2. Click MoreMoreand then Options.

Get out an album or conversation

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

To get out an album:

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

To go out a conversation:

  1. Click the chat.
  2. At the meridian, 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 and conversations

You can remove photos, videos, comments and likes that you 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 right, click More 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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