Set up Partner Sharing

You can share photos of specific people or share photos from a specific date in the future. Photos will be shared automatically as they're backed up to your account.

Important: Sharing photos of specific people isn't available in all geographic regions.

Before you start

Download and install the Google Photos app.

Share your photos with a partner

Important: Anything that you do to your version of a shared photo won't apply to any copies already saved by your partner. This includes any edits, deletions or transfers to your Locked Folder. Learn more about Locked Folder.

When you share with your partner, they will receive the photos that you've chosen to share as soon as they're backed up. Once your partner accepts your invitation for Partner Sharing, they can choose to use Partner Sharing to reciprocate sharing their photos with you.

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in with your Google Account.
  3. Tap your account profile photo or initial and then Google Photos settings.
  4. Tap Sharing and then Partner Sharing and then Get started.
  5. Enter or select an email address. You can only invite someone with a Google Account.
  6. Select which photos to add to your partner account.
  7. Tap Next.
  8. If everything seems right, tap Send invitation.
  9. Optional: To see your partner's photos, ask them to share their photos with you after they've accepted your invitation.

To partner share with a different person or receive an invitation, stop sharing with your current partner.

Filter by face groups

Face groups isn’t'perfect. Filtering by face groups may result in occasionally sharing photos that don't actually have any of the people who you've selected.

Filter by date

Sometimes, the date of the photo might be wrong. For example, if the photo was scanned or the camera's clock wasn’t set correctly, a photo might have the wrong date. Filtering by date might result in occasionally sharing photos that aren’t within the date range chosen.

Accept a Partner Sharing invitation

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in with the Google Account that was invited.
  3. At the top, tap Sharing .
    • Important: For some users, Sharing can be found at the bottom.
  4. Tap the invitation that you want to accept and then Accept.
  5. Optional: You can share your photo library back with your partner. At the top, tap More 더보기 and then Share back.

Tip: If someone that you don't know starts Partner Sharing with you, you can block them after accepting the invite. Learn how to block a person.

Find your partner’s photos

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in with your Google Account.
  3. At the top, tap Sharing .
    • Important: For some users, Sharing can be found at the bottom.
  4. Tap your partner's name.
Save your partner's photos

If you save your partner's photos, they appear in your Google Photos account, photos view, search results and memories.

The photos and videos that you save from Partner Sharing won't count towards your storage, as long as your partner continues to share them with you through Partner Sharing.

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in with your Google Account.
  3. Tap your account profile photo or initial and then Google Photos settings and then Sharing and then Partner Sharing.
  4. Tap Save to your photos to change settings.
    • All photos: Your partner's shared photos will be saved.
    • Photos of specific people: Select from your face groups. When Google Photos recognises any of those face groups from your partner's photos, it'll automatically save the photos to your Google Photos account.

If your partner deletes a photo from their Photos account, it's removed from Partner Sharing. If you save the photo before it's deleted, you can still find it in your photo library.

Delete photos that you recently saved from your partner
If you delete a photo that you saved from your partner’s photos, it won’t be deleted from your partner’s account.
  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com/search/_tra_. This page will have any recently added photos, including photos that you’ve saved from your partner.
  2. Select the photo that you want to delete.
  3. Click Delete Delete.

Turn off notifications

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in with the Google Account that was invited.
  3. Tap your account profile photo or initial and then Google Photos settings and then Sharing and then Partner Sharing.
  4. Turn off Notifications.

Remove a partner

If you remove your partner, they won't be able to access the photos that you have shared and you won't be able to access their photos. You and your partner will still be able to find any photos already saved to your Google Photos account. You can always share with a removed partner again. Learn how to save your partner's photos.
  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in with the Google Account that was invited.
  3. Tap your account profile photo or initial and then Google Photos settings.
  4. Tap Sharing and then Partner Sharing and then Remove partner.

Remove your partner's access to a photo

If you remove a photo from Partner Sharing, your partner won't be able to access that photo within Partner Sharing. Your partner will still be able to find photos already saved to their Google Photos account.

Important: You can only remove photos that you own.

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. At the top, tap Sharing .
    • Important: For some users, Sharing can be found at the bottom.
  3. Tap Partner Sharing.
  4. Tap the photo that you would like to remove.
  5. At the top, tap More and then Remove and then Remove.

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