Share photos & videos

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

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

Before you become started

Share in a conversation

Yous tin 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 everyone else, you tin can create a link to share.

If your contact's telephone number isn't associated with their Google Account, y'all can assistance them find 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 chat:

  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 "Send in Google Photos," select people to share with.
    • To share with one person, tap their proper noun.
    • 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 a bulletin to go with your shared media.
  6. To share, tapSend. This volition create an ongoing chat thread where you and the people you accept shared with tin can add additional photos, videos, comments, and likes over fourth dimension.

Tips:

  • There is a 20,000 photograph limit on conversations.
  • To hide a suggested sharing contact, press and concur their profile photograph and tap Hide suggestion. To find them again to share something with them subsequently, tap Search , enter their proper noun, and tapShow hidden suggestions.

You 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 by search using their email accost or phone number. For everyone else, you can create a link to share.
  • When yous share a link to your album, anyone with the link can view and add to the anthology or photos. Larn how shared album controls give your photos more privacy.
  • If you share an anthology that automatically adds photos of face groups, anyone with admission to the album 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 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 album. Larn how to change your sharing options.

What happens when you share

  • When y'all send to a contact in Google Photos:
    • Contacts y'all shared with get an in-app notification and a push notification from the app. The shared particular(south) appear in their Sharing page.
    • When yous share a new album or conversation with them, they'll also 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 anthology or conversation.
    • When they view the anthology or conversation, their business relationship profile photograph or initial volition appear in the action view next to the latest photos, comments, or likes they have viewed.
    • If they join a shared album or like, comment, or add photos in a shared anthology or chat, their profile image changes to their account profile photo or initial
  • When you add together photos or videos to albums or conversations, your account profile photo or initial will announced next to the latest photos you lot added.
  • If you share a video captured fully or partially in slow motion, others may be able to view any role of the video at a slower speed in their own player.

What happens when someone shares with you

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

  • When someone shares an album or conversation with you lot, y'all will receive an email.
  • If you already use Google Photos, you will also receive an in-app notification and a push notification and the share will announced in your Sharing page.
  • When you view the anthology or conversation, your account profile photograph or initial in the album will light up and  announced adjacent to the latest photos, comments, or likes you accept viewed.
  • If you join a shared album or like, comment, or add photos in a shared album or chat, your business relationship profile photo or initial will appear adjacent to the activity you took.
  • If you think someone is spamming you, yous tin can block or report them. Acquire more about who can share with yous.

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 access your shared albums and sharing activity, like comments and recently added photos. New sharing activeness volition exist in bold.

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

Review an anthology

  1. Open the anthology you shared.

  2. Click MoreMoreand then Options.

Leave an anthology or conversation

When you leave a shared album or chat, all of the photos, videos, comments, and likes you take added volition be removed.

To go out an album:

  1. Click the album.
  2. At the top right, click More Moreand thenGet out album.

To leave a conversation:

  1. Click the chat.
  2. At the superlative, click and then side by side to the names of the people in the conversation.
  3. Side by side to your proper noun, click Leave.

Remove items from shared albums & conversations

Yous 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 conversation thread, click on the photo or video.
  2. At the peak 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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