Label your face group

When you label your face group as 'me', you:

Get more personalised creations. For example, a highlight video that has photos of you.
Get personalised search. You can search 'Me' to find photos of yourself easily.
Make it easier for contacts to get suggestions to share with you. When your contacts take photos of you, they may get a suggestion to share photos that they have of you with you.

Note: This feature is not available in all geographic regions.

Confirm your face group and help your contacts get suggestions to share photos with you

If you select your 'Me' face label, you help the Google Photos app on your contacts' devices group images of you. Then, Google Photos can send them suggestions to share with you any photos that they have of you.

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
At the top, tap your account profile photo or initial.
Tap Photos settings Privacy.
If it isn't on already, turn on Face groups.
Under 'No face labelled as me', tap Choose.
Select your face. Tap OK. This will automatically turn on Help contacts recognise your face.

Who can get suggestions to share photos with you

Contacts that you've interacted with in Google Photos or Gmail may get a suggestion to share with you any photos that they have of you.
If you interact with new contacts via Google Photos shared albums or Gmail, these new contacts may get a suggestion to share photos with you.
If you delete shared albums or emails with some contacts, they may no longer get suggestions to share with you.

To check which contacts can currently get suggestions, go to photos.google.com/settings/contacts.

If you don't want someone to get suggestions, you can block them. Learn how to block someone.

Things you should know

If you label your 'Me' face group and help your contacts recognise your face in photos:

Your contacts may get suggestions to send photos of you to you, but you won't be publicly tagged in photos. Public tagging is not available in Google Photos.
Your contacts may get a suggestion to share, but they can choose whether or not they want to share with you.
Even if you don't label a face group as 'Me', your contacts might get suggestions to share with you if they've shared photos of you to you in the past.

Change or remove the 'Me' face label

If you select the wrong face, you can change the 'Me' face label to the correct face. You can also remove your face group, but you'll get fewer personalised creations and it will be harder for your contacts to get suggestions to share with you.

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
At the top, tap your account profile photo or initial.
Tap Photos settings Privacy.
Tap Face labelled as 'Me'.
Select a face to confirm the correct face group or tap Remove Remove label.

Stop letting contacts get suggestions based on your 'me' face label

Your contacts won't be able to get suggestions to share photos of you based on this label, but you'll still get personalised highlight videos and animations.

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
At the top, tap your account profile photo or initial.
Tap Photos settings Privacy.
Turn off Help contacts recognise your face.

Related resources

Face groups retention policy

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