You can use Gemini Spark to handle complex, multi-stage workflows with your Google Photos. You can manage, enhance, and share your visual memories with a single prompt in Gemini Spark.
In Gemini Spark, you can use Gemini to complete a combination of actions in a single task, including:
- Automatically search, organize, and curate your photos and videos.
- Edit, enhance, and stylize your images, or create new collages and videos.
- Generate summaries of events, extract text from images, and create visual stories.
- Run workflows across Connected Apps using info from your photos.
- Set up recurring tasks to manage your photos in the background.
Important: We’re gradually making Google Photos available in Gemini Spark, so it might not be available to you just yet.
What you need
To use Gemini Spark with Google Photos, you must:
- Be 18 or over and in the US. This feature isn’t available in some United States regions.
- Be eligible for Gemini Spark. Learn more about Gemini Spark requirements.
- Connect Google Photos to Gemini Apps. Learn how to connect Google Photos.
Important: For now, the Google Photos features in Gemini Spark are:
- Only available in English.
- Only available in the Gemini mobile app and on the web at gemini.google.com.
Manage multi-stage Google Photos workflows with Gemini
- On your phone or tablet, open the Gemini mobile app
or go to gemini.google.com.
- At the top, tap Menu
Spark.
- In the text box, tell Gemini what you want it to do with your photos or videos.
- For example:
Find the best 15 photos from our trip to Hawaii last week. Enhance the beach shots, put them into a shared album called 'Aloha 2026', and draft an email with the link. - To schedule the task, tell Gemini the time or event after which to start the task. Learn more about schedules.
- To specify an existing skill to use, enter
/, then select the skill. Learn more about skills.
- For example:
- Tap Submit
.
or go to 
Spark.
.Here are some examples of multi-stage workflows you can ask Gemini Spark to perform with Google Photos:
- Find the best photos and videos from my recent block party and put everything into a new shared album called 'Summer Block Party'. Draft an email to the neighborhood group with the link.
- Brighten up my beach shots from my recent vacation and add them to a new album called ‘Beach Therapy’.
- Check my photo of the local summer concert series and cross-reference it with my Google Calendar availability. Which night can I make it to the concert?
- Every weekend, find my top photos of food, build a collage, and add it to a new album called 'What my camera ate this week'.
What you can do with Google Photos in Gemini Spark
With Gemini Spark, you can perform a wide range of actions with your Google Photos.
- Search & curate: Find specific photos and videos by subject, location, date, or event. Ask Gemini for the best shots and to filter duplicates.
- Edit & create: Quickly enhance photo quality, apply quick fixes, and generate collages or stylized images. Any edits create a new copy that’s saved in Google Photos.
- Create albums & organize: Create new shared or private albums, and save curated photos to them.
- Share albums: Add or send links to shared albums in Connected Apps like Gmail, Google Docs, and Messages.
- Schedule automations: Set up recurring tasks to manage your Google Photos workflows, like automatically creating monthly highlight albums or sorting photos of receipts.
- Extract text from images: Find specific images and extract text from them. Then summarize or reformat the information in a Google Document, or ask Gemini to complete a task using that information.
Tip: You can ask Gemini Spark, "What Google Photos skills do you have?"
How Gemini Spark works with Google Photos
- Original photos are untouched. Gemini Spark doesn’t edit or overwrite your original photos. To edit a photo, a copy is made and then edited.
- You must confirm some actions. Gemini Spark asks for your permission before performing actions like creating shared albums or sending emails.
- New albums are private by default. When Gemini Spark creates a new album, it’s private to you. Gemini asks for your permission before sharing an album.