Find and manage your featured memories

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

Find featured memories

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. Sign in to your Google Account.
3. At the top of Photos view, in a carousel, you can find featured memories.
   • To find more memories, click the arrow .
4. To open a featured memory, click it.
5. To exit a featured memory, at the top, click Close .

Tip: Featured memories are updated frequently. You can find and edit some of your featured memories as albums in Memories view on your mobile device.

Share a featured memory

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. At the top, click a memory in your featured memories carousel.
3. At the top, click Share Share memory Share .
4. Select people to share the memory with Send .

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

Manage your featured memories

Important: Changes that you make to these settings only apply to the featured memories carousel, not the Memories view. Learn how to edit your memories.

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

Turn off featured memories

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. At the top, click Settings .
3. Next to 'Memories', click Expand .
4. Under 'Featured memories', turn off Time-based memories and Themed memories.
5. Under 'Creations', to turn off, click all types of creations:
   • Animations
   • Cinematic photos
   • Collages
   • Colour pops
   • Stylised photos

Tip: If you don't want to turn off featured memories completely, you can also hide specific people, pets and dates from appearing in memories above the Photos view.

• Learn how to hide people and pets.
• Learn how to hide a date.

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 computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. At the top, click Settings .
3. Next to 'Memories', click Expand .
4. Under 'Featured memories', select the type of memories that you want to find.

Hide someone

Important: The 'hide a face' settings apply to photos in the featured memories carousel.

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. At the top, click Settings .
3. Scroll to 'Memories'.
4. Click Hide faces.
5. Under 'Show less' or 'Blocked', click Select faces.
   • Show less: You won't get memories about them, but they may still appear in group photos included in memories.
   • Blocked: They won't appear in memories, including group photos with others.
6. Choose who you want to hide.
7. Click Done.
   • To show a face that was previously hidden, click Remove next to the face.

You can also hide a face when you're viewing a memory:

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. At the top, click a memory in your featured memories carousel.
3. To find the photos in the memory, click the down arrow .
4. Click a photo that contains the face that you want to hide.
5. At the top, click Info .
6. Next to the face that you want to hide, click More Hide face from memories.
7. Click Show less or Block face.

Tip:

• It may take some time for these changes to take effect.
• Face hiding may not work perfectly in all photos.
• If you can't find faces, you can also hide a date.

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 computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. At the top, click Settings .
3. Scroll to 'Memories'.
4. Select Hide dates.
5. Add the date of the photos that you want to hide.
   • To remove a hidden date, select Remove .

Hide a memory from your featured memories

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. In your featured memories carousel, click a memory.
3. Click More Remove memory Remove.

Control whether your memories contain creations

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

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. At the top, click Settings .
3. Scroll to 'Memories'.
4. Under 'Featured memories', select the types of creations that you want to find in your memories.

Change date and timestamp

When you take photos on a different device, the date displayed in Google Photos may be incorrect. If your featured memories display the wrong date, you can change the date and timestamps on the photos.

Important: When you change the date and time of your photo, Google Photos displays the updated date and time. If you share the photo to other apps or download it, the photo may show the original date and time saved by your camera.

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. At the top, click a memory in your featured memories carousel.
3. To find the photos in the memory, click the down arrow .
4. Hover over a photo or video.
5. Click Select .
   • To update more than one item at once, select multiple photos or videos.
6. At the top, click More Edit date and time.
   • If you select more than one item:
     • To update the date and time for the first item: Click Shift dates and times. The date and time for the other items will automatically shift in a relative manner.
     • To set the same date and time for all of the items that you select: Click Set one date and time.
7. To finish, follow the on-screen instructions.

Tip: Photos taken before 4.00 a.m. are sorted into the previous day.

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 computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. When you click into a memory, creations that were auto-generated appear.

Tip: If you back up photos that are good candidates for a Pop Out effect, Google Photos may generate it automatically for you. Learn more about creations.

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 saved

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
   • In the Photos view, you can find your saved creations with other photos and videos.
2. To search for the creations that you've saved, click Explore.
3. At the bottom, in the 'Creations' section, click the type of creation that you want, or click Saved 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 computer, go to photos.google.com.
2. On the right, click Utilities.
3. Under 'Utilities', find options to create an Animation, Collage or Movie.

Related resources

• View and edit your monthly memories
• Get help with titles for your memories
• Edit and share your memories