When you open Google Photos, you’ll find a view with all of your photos and videos. You can choose to automatically organize similar photos into a stack. You can further organize your Photos view by hiding clutter.
While you can group similar photos into stacks to help organize your Photos view, it doesn’t change your available storage. Learn how to clean up storage.
- If you can’t find a photo in your Photos view, check photo stacks.
- Photo stacks are only available on the Google Photos app.
Navigate a photo stack
You can view the top pick for each stack in your Photos view. When you tap a photo stack from your Photos view, you can scroll through all items in the photo stack from the filmstrip at the bottom. To view other items that aren't part of the stack, swipe left or right.
You can also navigate to a stacks grid to find all items in a stack in a grid-view. From here, you can take action on multiple items in the stack at once.
Taking actions on photo stacks from Photos view
When you share photo stacks, add photo stacks to things like album and animations, or order photo stacks from your Photos view, you’re prompted to tap “Selected items only” or “Includes photo stacks.”
- Selected items only: Your action will apply to only the top pick.
- Includes photo stacks: Your action will apply to all items in the photo stack.
Other actions will automatically apply to all items in the stack.
Manage photo stacks
You can access and share selected photos and videos from the stack.
Turn photo stacks on & off
- On your Android device, open the Google Photos app
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- Tap More
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- Turn on or off Stack similar photos.
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.Tip: If you turned on photo stacks but can’t find stacks in your Photos view, try the following:
- Make sure you’ve turned on backup. Photo stacks are only available for backed up photos. Learn how to turn backup on or off.
- Check back again later. It takes some time to stack recently taken photos.
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Hide photos from other apps
- On your Android device, open the Google Photos app
- Tap More
Settings
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- Turn Show content from other apps on or off.
- Optional: If you turn “Show content from other apps” on, you can choose to:
- Only show backed up content: All backed up photos from other apps appear in your Photos view.
- Hide clutter from apps: Backed up photos from other apps like screenshots, GIFs, and memes, are hidden from your Photos view.
- Customize by app: Select the setting you prefer for your chosen app:
- Show all
- Hide clutter
- Hide all
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.Troubleshoot Photo stacks
About photo stacks
- Photo stacks: You can choose to automatically organize similar photos into a stack that suggests the top pick of the stack.
- Similar photos: Nearly identical photos of the same subject that were taken together within a short time frame.
- At the top right of a photo in your Photos view, stacks of photos have the Photos stack
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