Find and manage your featured memories

Google Photos automatically organises your photos and videos into a timeline of meaningful moments. You can customise your memories and share them with others.

Find featured memories

Find memories

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
2. At the bottom, tap Photos.
3. At the top, tap a featured memory.
   • To move to the next or previous photo: tap on the right or left of the screen.
   • To skip to the next or previous memory: swipe right or left on the screen
   • To pause on a photo: touch and hold it.
4. To exit a memory, at the top left, tap Close .

Tip: Featured memories are updated frequently. You can save featured memories and find them later in the Memories view.

Add the memories widget to your home screen

Important: This feature is available for iPhones and iPads with iOS 14 and up.

If you recently installed the Google Photos app, you’ll need to open it before the widget appears in the widget gallery.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, touch and hold the home screen.
2. At the top, tap add .
3. Enter 'Google Photos' into the search bar.
4. Tap the Google Photos app   Add widget.
5. Place the widget on your home screen.
6. Tap Done.

Tip: To add a widget to multiple accounts, follow the on-screen instructions on how to switch accounts. 

Share a featured memory

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
2. At the top, tap on a memory in your featured memories carousel.
3. At the bottom, tap Share Share memory Share .
4. Select people to share the featured memory with.
5. Tap Send .

Tip: If you want to remove a photo or change the memory title before you share, click Edit.

Manage your featured memories

You can change your settings to control what appears in your featured memories carousel.

Control the memories that you receive 

You can choose the types of memories that you find in the featured memories carousel. When you select at least one memory type, the featured memories carousel appears above the photo grid.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
2. At the top right, tap your account profile photo or initial Photos settings .
3. Tap Customisation Memories Featured memories.
4. Select the types of memories that you want to find.

Hide someone

Important: When you hide someone, photos that include their face won't appear in the featured memories carousel, creations or on your search page. It may take up to 24 hours for the change to take effect.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
2. At the top right, tap your account profile photo or initial Photos settings .
3. Tap Customisation Memories Hide people and pets.
4. Choose who you want to hide.
5. Tap Done.
   • To show someone, tap their face again.

Hide a date

Important: When you hide a date, you won't get photos taken on that date in the featured memories carousel.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
2. At the top right, tap your account profile photo or initial Photos settings .
3. Tap Customisation Memories Hide Dates.
4. Add dates that you want to hide.
   • To remove a hidden date, tap Remove .

Control whether your memories contain creations

You can select which types of creations you can find in your memories.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
2. At the top right, tap your account profile photo or initial Photos settings .
3. Tap Customisation  Memories Featured memories Creations.
4. Select the types of creations that you want to find in your memories.

Manage your memories notifications

You control what notifications to receive when there is a new memory or a new creation available.
 

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
2. At the top right, tap your account profile photo or initial Photos settings .
3. Tap Customisation Memories  Notifications.
4. Under 'Memories', turn the option to receive memories from previous years, themed memories or creations on or off.

Learn about creations

Creations made for you may appear in Memories view and in your featured memories carousel.

Check whether something has been created for you

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
2. At the bottom, tap Photos.
3. Creations will arrive in your Memories carousel at the top.

Save creations

You can save creations that are made for you like highlight videos or animations.

To save creations from your featured memories carousel, at the bottom, select Save. You can find saved creations in your Photos view.

Find creations that you have saved

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open Google Photos .
   • In the Photos tab, your saved creations appear with other photos and videos.
2. To search for the creations that you've saved, at the bottom, tap Search .
3. At the bottom, in the 'Creations' section, tap the type of creation that you want, or tap All creations.

Make creations

You can make your own collage, animation or highlight video from your photos and videos.

To make your own creation:

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open Google Photos .
2. At the bottom, tap Library Utilities.
3. At the bottom, find options to create an animation, collage or highlight video.

Related resources

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