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
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- At the bottom, tap Photos.
- 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.
- To exit a memory, at the top, tap Close .
Tips:
- Featured memories are updated frequently.
- You can find some of your featured memories as albums in the Memories view.
- To turn off the music:
- Open a featured memory.
- At the bottom, tap Volume .
- On your iPhone or iPad, touch and hold the home screen.
- At the top, tap add .
- Enter 'Google Photos' into the search bar.
- Tap the Google Photos app Add widget.
- Place the widget on your home screen.
- Tap Done.
Edit your featured memories
Important: Any edits that you make to a memory in the featured memories carousel will also apply to the album in your Memories view.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- In your featured memories carousel, tap a memory.
- At bottom, tap the album thumbnail.
- Tap More Edit.
If you edit the title of any featured memory, the title changes in the Memories view. To edit a memory's title from your featured memories carousel:
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- In your featured memories carousel, tap a memory.
- At the bottom, tap More Edit album title.
Share a featured memory
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- At the top, tap on a memory in your featured memories carousel.
- At the bottom, tap Share Share memory Share .
- Select people to share the featured memory with.
- Tap 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- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- At the top, tap your account Profile photo or initial Google Photos settings .
- Tap Preferences Memories Memory types.
- Turn off Time-based memories and Themed memories.
- Tap Creations.
- Turn off all types of creations:
- Animations
- Cinematic photos
- Collages
- Colour pops
- Stylised photos
Tip:
- If you still want to view featured memories, but don't want to be alerted when a new memory is available, you can turn off your memories notifications.
- 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.
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.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- At the top, tap your account Profile photo or initial Google Photos settings .
- Tap Preferences Memories Featured memories.
- Select the types of memories that you want to find.
Important: The 'hide a face' settings apply to photos in the featured memories carousel.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
- At the top, tap your account Profile photo or initial Google Photos settings.
- Tap Preferences Memories Hide faces.
- Under 'Show less' or 'Blocked', tap 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.
- Choose who you want to hide.
- Tap Done.
- To show a face that was previously hidden, tap Remove next to the face.
You can also hide a face when you're viewing a memory:
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
- In your featured memories carousel, tap a memory.
- Swipe to a photo that contains the face that you want to hide.
- At the bottom, tap More .
- Next to the face that you want to hide, tap More Hide face from memories.
- Tap 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.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- At the top, tap your account Profile photo or initial Google Photos settings .
- Tap Preferences Memories Hide dates.
- Add dates that you want to hide.
- To remove a hidden date, tap Remove .
You can also hide a date when you're viewing a memory:
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- In your featured memories carousel, tap a memory.
- Tap More Hide Hide this date from all memories.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- In your featured memories carousel, tap a memory.
- Tap More Hide.
- To hide a memory: Tap Remove this memory.
- To hide a photo from a memory: Tap Remove this photo from this memory.
- To hide a date from all memories: Tap Hide this date from all memories.
- To hide people and pets from all memories: Tap Hide people and pets.
You can select which types of creations you can find in your memories.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- At the top, tap your account Profile photo or initial Google Photos settings .
- Tap Preferences Memories Featured memories.
- Tap Creations.
- Select the types of creations that you want to find in your memories.
You control what notifications you receive when there is a new memory or a new creation available.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- At the top, tap your account Profile photo or initial Google Photos settings .
- Tap Preferences Memories Notifications.
- Under 'Memories', choose your notification preferences:
- Previous years: Receive notifications when new time-based memories are available.
- Themed memories: Receive notifications when new themed memories are available.
- Creations: Receive notifications when new creations are available.
When you create a new album in the Memories view, the album highlight can also appear in your featured memories carousel. Learn how to edit your memories.
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.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- At the top, tap on a memory in your featured memories carousel.
- At the bottom, tap More View day.
- Tap a photo.
- At the top, tap More .
- Tap the date and timestamp.
- Select a new date and time.
- Tap Done.
Tips:
- Photos taken before 4.00 a.m. are sorted into the previous day.
- You can only change the date and timestamps in the Google Photos app for backed up photos.
Learn about creations
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Photos app .
- At the bottom, tap Photos.
- Creations will arrive in your Memories carousel at the top.
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.
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.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open Google Photos .
- In the Photos tab, your saved creations appear with other photos and videos.
- To search for the creations that you saved, at the bottom, tap Search.
- Tap the search bar.
- To find all saved creations: Enter 'Creations'.
- To find a specific type of creation: Enter the name of the creation, such as 'Animations'" or 'Highlight videos'.
- Tap Search.
To make your own creation:
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .
- At the top, tap Create .
- Find options to create an animation, collage or Highlight video.