See your photos on your smart display or Smart Clock

You can use your smart display’s or Smart Clock's ambient display as a digital picture frame for your Google Photos. Learn how to start using Google Photos.

Important: Some features aren't available in all languages or countries.

On Smart Clocks, you can use the Google Assistant in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.

Set up a live album

You can create a photo album that automatically adds photos of your friends and family.

Smart display

On your phone

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Home app .
2. At the bottom, tap Home .
3. Touch and hold your smart display.
4. At the top right, tap Device settings Photo Frame.
5. Tap Google Photos Select family and friends.
6. Tap the people that you want to include Confirm.
7. To go back to Photo Frame settings, tap Back .

Learn how to create a live album in Google Photos.

On your smart display

1. On your smart display, swipe up.
2. Tap Settings .
3. Under "Photo Frame", tap Google Photos. 
4. Choose albums that you want to display in ambient mode.

Smart Clock

1. On your Smart Clock home screen, swipe up.
2. Tap Settings Clock face.
3. Scroll right.
4. Tap Google Photos Select albums.
5. Tap the albums that you want to include Done.

You can also create a live album in Google Photos.

Important: Only photos on landscape mode will show on device.

Set up multiple live albums

Each live album can hold up to 10,000 pictures. If you want more pictures displayed, you can create a new live album that only adds new photos from your library, rather than using older photos from your library.

Smart display

Step 1: Create an album

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
2. At the bottom, tap Library.
3. Under “Albums”, tap New album .
4. To name the album, tap Add a title.
5. Tap More Options Automatically add photos .
6. Tap the people whose photos you want to add to the album automatically.
   • To add older photos of people that you selected, check Also add existing photos.
7. Tap Confirm.

Step 2: Add the new album

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Home app .
2. At the bottom, tap Home .
3. Touch and hold your smart display.
4. At the top right, tap Device settings Photo Frame.
5. Tap Google Photos your new album.
6. To go back to Photo Frame settings, tap Back .

Smart Clock

1. Open the Google Photos app .
2. Tap Albums New album .
3. To name the album, tap Add a title.
4. Tap More Options Automatically add photos .
5. Tap the people whose photos you want automatically added to the album.
6. Make sure that "Add older photos from my library" is unticked.
7. Tap Confirm.
8. On your Smart Clock home screen, swipe up.
9. Tap Settings clock face.
10. Scroll right.
11. Tap Google Photos Select albums.
12. To go back, at the upper right,  tap Back .

Important: Only photos on landscape mode will show on device.

Control photos from your smart display

You can take different actions such as navigating between photos, favouriting a photo or removing a photo when your album is showing on your smart display.

To take action on the photos, say "Hey Google", then:

• "Next photo"
• "Previous photo"
• "When was this taken?"
• "Where was this taken?"
• "Favourite this photo"
• "Share this photo with [contact name]"
• "Remove this photo"

If you remove a photo, you will no longer see the photo on your smart display and it will be archived in Google Photos. Find out what happens to archived photos.