Photo Frame on your Google Nest display

Live Albums automatically add photos from your Google Photos library so you don't have to manually update the photos on your Nest display.

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. Tap Favorites or Devices ..
3. Tap and hold your device's tile.
4. Tap Settings Photo Frame.
5. Tap Google Photos Select family & friends.
6. Tap the faces you want to include Confirm or Done.

You can also create your own auto-updating live albums. Learn how to create and edit photo albums.

Note: Make sure you enable Face Groups in Google Photos.

Important: Face Groups in Google Photos is not available in all geographic regions.

You can add or remove albums with the Home app or your Nest display.

Home app:

1. Open the Home app .
2. Tap Favorites or Devices ..
3. Tap and hold your device's tile.
4. Tap Settings Photo Frame Google Photos.
5. Select albums to add and deselect albums to remove.

Nest display:

1. Say "Hey Google, change Photo Frame."
2. Tap Google Photos.
3. Select albums to add and deselect albums to remove.

Available albums include auto-selected albums like "Recent highlights," your private Google Photos albums, and your shared albums that have a name.

When a photo is on your Nest display screen, you can do the following:

• To go to the next photo, swipe left or say "Hey Google, next photo."
• To go to the previous photo, swipe right or say "Hey Google, previous photo."
• To learn more about the photo, ask "Hey Google, when was this taken?" or "Hey Google, where was this taken?"
• To remove the photo, say "Hey Google, remove this photo," and follow the prompts. The photo should now be archived in Google Photos.
• To share the photo with one of your Google contacts, say "Hey Google, share this photo with [contact name]" and follow the prompts. You can also share groups of photos.
• To mark a photo as favorite, say "Hey Google, favorite this photo," or touch and hold the photo on the screen tap Favorites . This photo should now appear in your Favorites album.

Voice interaction with photos is available in most Google Assistant languages that work on your Nest display.

This setting shows curated images and artwork. You can choose from the following art categories:

Choose from a variety of clock faces.

Try out new sources and content.

Important: The available experimental options might change or become unavailable without prior notice.

Banner notifications proactively tell you about your upcoming events and tasks. This feature is only available in the US.

• To receive banner notifications on your display, turn on the following settings:
  • Nest Hub: Personal results and Ultrasound sensing
  • Nest Hub Max: Personal results and Face Match
• To dismiss a notification when it's on your display, swipe up the banner.
• To turn off banner notifications, open Photo Frame settings for your display, then set "Banner notifications" to Hide.

If you have more than one Google Account linked to your Nest display, you need to turn off banner notifications for each account.

To show the weather in Photo Frame, select Show. You'll get the local weather for the address of your home in the Google Home app.

• To check the address entered for your home, open the Google Home app tap Settings check under the name of your home.
• To change the address, tap your home name Home address Edit.

To show the air quality index (AQI) when it's available in your area, select Show.

To let your Nest display show the time in Photo Frame, select Show.

By default, your photos display information like album name, photo date, photo location and more. To hide this information, set "Personal photo data" to Hide.

Note: Personal photo data is only available in the US.

To let portrait photos appear in your Google Photos slideshow, select Show or Show pairs.

• Show: One portrait photo appears on your Nest display screen.
• Show pairs: A pair of related photos appear side-by-side. Google Photos uses a number of signals to relate photos, including if they have the same person in them (in geographic regions where Face Groups are available), or if they were taken close together in time or location.

Depending on the album, Google Photos may curate the photos that it selects for your slideshow:

• Live Albums only: Google Photos tries to select the best photos from these albums.
• All albums: Google Photos tries to remove photos with poor image quality or near duplicates.
  • To turn off curation for these albums, set "Personal photo curation" to Live albums only.
• Your Favorites: Google Photos doesn't curate these photos.

Art and photo slideshows use bandwidth to download images to your Nest display. To help save bandwidth, choose a slower slideshow speed.

To show the Weather Frog in addition to your photos, select Show.

To get recommended content, select Show.