That was well presented! I’m a new but aging (75) Google Photos user and I have found some things confusing. And sharing tops the list. You’ve just taught an old dog a new trick and I thank you!
Beyond words ... extremely valuable content, easy to follow presentation, backed up with superb documentation. We had a photos project and I am so lucky to stumble on your vid. Links were the answer. I have shared and have subscribed to your channel. Keep up the fabulous posts.
Nice job. Examples of what it looks like on the sharee (is that a word?) end would be useful. I share with my parents generation and none of them have smart phones, so I usually have to blindly walk them through things like this while on the phone. Thanks for taking the time to put this video together.
Thanks for the video, helped me a lot more than reading the official help articles. I would think Google pay their employees enough to do a proper job publishing app functionality to their users, and not reply on people like yourself to explain it for them .
Thanks. Sending pics I took from a memorial to family and friends. This SO helped me know how to send to those I just have emails from. Well explained.
'Link sharing' might be what I'm looking for. I heard you mention 'link sharing' just before I decided that maybe I should look into "Dropbox". I'm looking for a way to post images on an online forum. Thanks. I'll give 'Google Photos' a try.
I want to save pictures shared with me in an album. I'm afraid that if the owner deletes them from the album I will no longer have them. How do I save someone else's photos to my own album so that I become the owner of these images and can control if/when they get deleted?
Hi, Johanna - in order to make sure that the pictures don't go away when the owner deletes them, you'll need to download them to your device. Then they will upload to your Google photos and you can organize them as you see fit. Hope that helps!
Thank you so much! Great info. and very concise. I'm wondering if sharee's get updates via email when "comments" are made on the photos in an album that has been shared by link?
Hi, Melissa -- I'm not certain of this. I know that if the album is shared by account, you get an update, but I'm doubting that you do if just shared by link. If you find out for sure, come back and let us know!
still trying to download the photo is sent to me.... yesterday I was logged into Google photos from the link my friend sent me,.... very difficult to try to figure this out.... I really prefer simple attachments..east to open and yse. then I can save them wherever I want !!!
I believe that their cloud storage would be burdened if you add your photos. Obviously, if you don't delete them from your own account then you will both be burdened! I hope that makes sense!
With a link, people can only view the album. They would need to “join” the album with a login and you would need to give them edit access for them to be able to delete photos. Hope that helps!
i really have a problem with sharing my Google photos account....when I share my main account to another Gmail account...i am not able to get backup from the date that I wanted...instead the whole photos in my gallery are being uploaded to the another account...why am i not able to get photos backed up from the date that i wanted..!!??? plss respond...🙏🏻 as I have a lot of important photos to be backed up
Edit: figured it out in the comment thread 👍 Nice video! Quick question. I want to go and gather some photos from my parents of New Years circa 2020. If I ask them to share via google account to my google photos and the little “direct messaging” thing opens up. Will the photos be added to my library automatically? I want to consolidate a bunch of photos from different people into my library so it’s all in one place.
Hi, there. I'm not totally sure of the answer to your question. I think the answer is that if others add photos to your albums, they are added to your library. But if you try this out, can you come back and let us know?
@@marblejarchannel Hi. Just checked. If you don't go the shared album route and use the "share" button and then send it to someones google account you'll have a chat box with all of the photos you want to share. Underneath at the bottom of all of the photos you'll see a "save to my google photos" option. If you click it all of the photos in the chat box from the other person will be saved to your google photo library. Hope that helps.
Im sending pics and vids by link from an Android to my wife who has an iPhone. We can't figure out on her iphone how to save the pic or vid from the shared link to her iphone photo gallery. Is that possible?
Thank you for putting together this video. The main thing I'm looking for is basically how to transfer/copy an entire album, including the album definition, from one Google account to another. With sharing it's not clear to me if a physical copy of the photos are made to the new/second/target Google account or just reference/pointer/link to the original album and photos. In other words, once the Google album and photos have been shared with another account, can I delete the original album and photos without it affecting the new/second/target Google account that "hopefully" now has its own copy of the album and photos? Basically, can Google albums, including the album definition, be physically copied to another account and not be affected if the album and photos in the original/source account are deleted? Thanks!
Hi, Chuck. My understanding is that by sharing, you only get a reference or pointer to the photos. You then need to choose download those photos. I also think that if the primary account is deleted, the photos will also disappear unless they are downloaded and added to the shared person’s regular album. I hope that helps although probably not what you wanted to hear. Let us know if you discover something different!
I have a question, I recently switched from Pixel back to iPhone. My Wife and I use Google photos shared album to drop pictures to one another as they maintain quality better than Whatsapp. However recently any photo I have taken now appears in her photos and not just the ones I have intentionally moved into our shared album. Neither of us have the 'share with a partner' option turned on so cannot work out why my wife receives everything from my phone. Help would be much appreciated!
That is odd. The only thing I can think is that you have somehow turned the album into a Live Album. Live albums will automatically add photos of the people or pets that you specify (it’s in the options section). Does that sound like a possibility?
Question: I have my childrens email on my cell phone. I am finding my photos are being shared on with their google photos. How do I stop this from occurring?
Thank you for this.Video I have a question; when someone shares an album with you...do those photos take up the memory on my iPhone? and What if I want to remove myself from the shared album?
Hi, Veronica - shared photo albums don’t take up space on your phone unless you download the photos from them. And you can remove yourself from the shared album by choosing the option “Leave Album.” Hope this helps!
Hii, i had a question… so my iPhone camera roll is constantly telling me that my storage is full and I can’t take any photos or videos…i have a google account so I have google photos…i tried to delete some photos from my camera roll but they got deleted from google photos too… but I saw an option on google photos where it said that there are some backed up photos on google photos which can be deleted from the device so should I do it? And if I do will those photos get deleted from google photos too?
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@@marblejarchannel hi I deleted the photos on cameral roll from goigle photos which were backed up but now my Google photos has no more space left and my camera roll is still showing that my storage is full what do I do now?
I searched for photos from a specific month and year and, inadvertently, shared the search link, thinking I was sharing just one photo from that search. Is the recipient able to view everything dated in that month or year?
Hi, Karen -- I don't think that you allow access even if you inadvertently share a search link. I think you have to have allowed access through either individual photos or through an album. If you test that and find that I'm wrong, come back and tell us! Thanks for the comment.
Well done and answered a number of questions for me. Here's a question I've not been able to find an answer to. Once or twice a day I receive an automatically created Google album. (So far, it's not an annoyance.) The albums are usually created around recent photos or people. Whenever I've tried to share that album, it only shares the first photo. Do you have any instructions on how to share the Google created album?
Hi, Larry -- I'm not entirely sure what you are seeing, but if you are talking about the "memories" that Google Photos offers, in order to share those, you would have to select the photos that they choose based on their algorithm, create an album, and then share it. Let me know if that answers your question!
Hi, nicely done. "Sharing" gets harder by the minute, especially if your recipient has no interest in "joining" anything. My question: Do you know if photos are shared in full resolution (300 dpi for JPEGs) or are they downgraded to lesser dpi resolution, as is the case with SmugMug. (Dropbox currently is the only service I know of that doesn't degrade resolution, but they are making it increasing difficult to "share" without becoming a Dropbox client. (Too many words, sorry, but have been fighting this problem for a while, and Google doesn't seem to meet my needs either.)
Thanks for sharing this. is there a way to create nested folders inside an album? I'm wanting to have a social media album with my team with images for each client. I would be fine without nested folders but seems that the image title isn't visible in google photos. It would be great to have a prompt to rename images in albums are one layer deep
Hi, Isaac - I agree that I don’t see a way to do this either. There is no option to create nested albums and there doesn’t appear to be a way to rename image names (although you can add a description) at least on the iOS app. You can swipe up on a photo to see all of that information.
Hi , my partner shared their Google photos with me I set so everything is saved automatically to my Google photos . If they ever stop sharing their Google photos with me are these photos that are saved in my Google photos only be deleted?
As long as those photos are saved in your account (so showing up in your Photos, not just in Albums), then they can delete their account and you will still have access!
Whoever I share an album link with will only be able to access that album and none of my other photos, correct? Also, if I want them to be able to download photos from that same album is there some other step?
I tried to share a pic to twitter when i clicked on it later it just took me to my page see photos screenshots etc. Ive been panicked people saw my whole camera reel. I went into a diff twitter account and saw everything. Is it just my device knows its me. Why was the pic not there? And could people see my whole reel and my ugly pics.
Hi, Roz -- I would just make sure that you have shared a single photo and not a full album from Google Photos. I don't think you can share your entire account except for through "partner sharing" which you can only do with one other person.
@@marblejarchannel ive not slept Ithink it has shared my entire account. It classed the lot as an album. It wont let you share just one pic. I went back in and did the same and i didnt read the message right. It says this link will share your album something like that even though I had hilighted one pic.😢😢😢
How do you get it to not show the date and time? Not talking about location because that's already turned off for others however I do not want my phone information and the date and time to be shown is there a way to turn that off for people that have the link or sharing the album too?
Hey. Thanks for the information. Do you know what happens when a partner stops sharing Google photos? Will that person's name be shown in the place of partner sharing once s/he stopped sharing?
I'm not entirely sure, but I think those photos would just go away unless you had added them to your own collection/library. If you find something different, will you let us all know here?
Hi there! Thank you for this information. I was also struggling with the difference between albums and shared albums. I have created an album with texts between the rows of pics as I set them up. I shared the link with a friend but she sees only individual pics at a time with the text boxes strewn around between them rather than the organized album with text as I set it up. She does not have a google account, but this shouldn't make a difference, should it? I copied me on the email to her with the link and when I click on it I see the album with the text as I created it. Thanks for any help or referrals for this question.
Hi, Sue - I’m having a hard time envisioning what you are saying. Are you saying that you commented on your photos? Or gave them captions? And she is seeing things differently than you? Each person will see things differently depending on what kind of device they are viewing the album on - but the captions should end up with the photo that you attached them to.
@@marblejarchannel Thank you! Yes, I was referring to the captions. I put under that photos. My friend was probably using her mobile phone rather than a laptop, so that’s probably why she didn’t see the photos the way I laid them out. Thank you so much for this valuable information!
Thanks for the video, question from me. Is there an option for me to create a shared album where not everyone with the link automatically has access but they can request access and I as the owner of that album can than decide whether to grant access to that person or not?
Hi, Tjard -- in this case, you would want to create a album that was invitation only (meaning no global or link only access), send out that link and ask them to request access once they receive the link. Then you can add or grant access as they request.
Is there a way I can access my mother in law photos from my computer so I can organize her photos? We live in different states so I want to help her from home.
If I am the owner of a shared album and I want to free up some space from my Google account, can I remove the pictures from the album without the other person loosing the pictures?
Is there a way to make a shared album permanently available to those it is shared with. When looking at the shared section I notice that it only continues to show shared items going back a short period of time. Some albums have been shared years ago but they are no longer shown.
This is interesting. I looked back and all of the old albums I have shared are still showing up as shared. I don't know whether anyone else can comment who has had this experience!
@@marblejarchannel Thank you :) When I said albums shared years ago I should have said many years ago... like even before 2010 and when it was still Picasa. My 'Sharing' section only shows a few years... say back to 4 or 5. It would be nice to be able to revisit those albums that were shared with me long ago. I've tried searching for old links through Gmail 'Search' but that's not helpful either. Anyway, thanks for your reply 🌻
Once you create the link, you'll need to make sure that the Collaboration option is turned off in order to stop people from adding their own photos to your album. Even with that turned on, people won't be able to delete or edit your photos!
@@LubaLuba1 Sure, you can allow comments and like - that just lets people comment on your photos. I haven’t found a way to share multiple albums with one link. Hope that helps!
@@marblejarchannel So leaving collaboration on will allow other people to add photos to corresponding albums but they won't be able to delete my current albums / photos correct?
You talked to fast and it wasn't clear where the various things on phone were. I suppose I will have to watch more times or video to understand how to do this.
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Hi, there! I do have a tendency to speak quickly unfortunately. I did want to give you some options: 1) you can slow down the speed of the video by hitting the three dots in the upper right hand corner, then Playback Speed, then choosing a slower speed and 2) I actually have scripts for all of my videos up at my website at www.marblejar.net. You can search that site for the script you are looking for, which may help to go back or review material. Thanks for the comment and I hope those options help!
That was well presented! I’m a new but aging (75) Google Photos user and I have found some things confusing.
And sharing tops the list. You’ve just taught an old dog a new trick and I thank you!
Something about this woman, I could listen to her all day lol. Smart, to the point, no nonsense. Great job! Thanks for clearing this up.
This comment made my day -- thank you!
What I really would like to know is… are you single? Lol
@@benjaminshumaker2740 Happily married for 25 years!
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Beyond words ... extremely valuable content, easy to follow presentation, backed up with superb documentation. We had a photos project and I am so lucky to stumble on your vid. Links were the answer.
I have shared and have subscribed to your channel. Keep up the fabulous posts.
Nice job. Examples of what it looks like on the sharee (is that a word?) end would be useful. I share with my parents generation and none of them have smart phones, so I usually have to blindly walk them through things like this while on the phone. Thanks for taking the time to put this video together.
Thanks for the video, helped me a lot more than reading the official help articles. I would think Google pay their employees enough to do a proper job publishing app functionality to their users, and not reply on people like yourself to explain it for them .
Google is in the game for profit, I doubt they are in the game of consideration???
Thanks! Very helpful info - Google’s UI is pretty confusing and this helped me do what I wanted (share an album with someone via SMS).
Thanks for this video, it's useful. Good explanation with examples made it easy to understand!
Super helpful, thank you! Just shot photos at a wedding, this is perfect.
Thanks. Sending pics I took from a memorial to family and friends. This SO helped me know how to send to those I just have emails from. Well explained.
Well done. Concise, thorough, informative.
Great presentation and explanation! Thank you!
Great!! I just shared my first event photos, and it's thanks to you. :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Excellent description. Thank you
'Link sharing' might be what I'm looking for. I heard you mention 'link sharing' just before I decided that maybe I should look into "Dropbox". I'm looking for a way to post images on an online forum. Thanks. I'll give 'Google Photos' a try.
I like how you can use link .I work with a group we then can all add a photo
I want to save pictures shared with me in an album. I'm afraid that if the owner deletes them from the album I will no longer have them. How do I save someone else's photos to my own album so that I become the owner of these images and can control if/when they get deleted?
Hi, Johanna - in order to make sure that the pictures don't go away when the owner deletes them, you'll need to download them to your device. Then they will upload to your Google photos and you can organize them as you see fit. Hope that helps!
Very helpful. Thank you.
So when you share photo as a link/ if I want them just to see that photo right they can’t see the rest of my personal album ? Or they can
You can just share a link to that photo without sharing the rest of the album.
Thanks for the video. Very helpful. :)
Thank you so much! Great info. and very concise. I'm wondering if sharee's get updates via email when "comments" are made on the photos in an album that has been shared by link?
Hi, Melissa -- I'm not certain of this. I know that if the album is shared by account, you get an update, but I'm doubting that you do if just shared by link. If you find out for sure, come back and let us know!
So with a share album I need to add contacts or can just share the link and email x amount of people ?
still trying to download the photo is sent to me.... yesterday I was logged into Google photos from the link my friend sent me,.... very difficult to try to figure this out.... I really prefer simple attachments..east to open and yse. then I can save them wherever I want !!!
Hi, thanks for you video! Do you know who’s cloud storage is “burdened” if I add my photos to my friends shared album?
I believe that their cloud storage would be burdened if you add your photos. Obviously, if you don't delete them from your own account then you will both be burdened! I hope that makes sense!
v v good
Helpful. But it should be title "Understanding Sharing in Google Photos MOBILE APP"
If I share the link, can someone with link delete the photos? or they can just view the album?
With a link, people can only view the album. They would need to “join” the album with a login and you would need to give them edit access for them to be able to delete photos. Hope that helps!
How do I prevent people from sharing with me?
i really have a problem with sharing my Google photos account....when I share my main account to another Gmail account...i am not able to get backup from the date that I wanted...instead the whole photos in my gallery are being uploaded to the another account...why am i not able to get photos backed up from the date that i wanted..!!???
plss respond...🙏🏻
as I have a lot of important photos to be backed up
why don’t i have a shared album icon and im sharing 2 albums ?
Edit: figured it out in the comment thread 👍
Nice video! Quick question. I want to go and gather some photos from my parents of New Years circa 2020.
If I ask them to share via google account to my google photos and the little “direct messaging” thing opens up. Will the photos be added to my library automatically?
I want to consolidate a bunch of photos from different people into my library so it’s all in one place.
Hi, there. I'm not totally sure of the answer to your question. I think the answer is that if others add photos to your albums, they are added to your library. But if you try this out, can you come back and let us know?
@@marblejarchannel Hi. Just checked. If you don't go the shared album route and use the "share" button and then send it to someones google account you'll have a chat box with all of the photos you want to share. Underneath at the bottom of all of the photos you'll see a "save to my google photos" option. If you click it all of the photos in the chat box from the other person will be saved to your google photo library. Hope that helps.
That's great -- thanks for letting us all know!
Im sending pics and vids by link from an Android to my wife who has an iPhone. We can't figure out on her iphone how to save the pic or vid from the shared link to her iphone photo gallery. Is that possible?
Thank you for putting together this video. The main thing I'm looking for is basically how to transfer/copy an entire album, including the album definition, from one Google account to another. With sharing it's not clear to me if a physical copy of the photos are made to the new/second/target Google account or just reference/pointer/link to the original album and photos. In other words, once the Google album and photos have been shared with another account, can I delete the original album and photos without it affecting the new/second/target Google account that "hopefully" now has its own copy of the album and photos?
Basically, can Google albums, including the album definition, be physically copied to another account and not be affected if the album and photos in the original/source account are deleted? Thanks!
Hi, Chuck. My understanding is that by sharing, you only get a reference or pointer to the photos. You then need to choose download those photos. I also think that if the primary account is deleted, the photos will also disappear unless they are downloaded and added to the shared person’s regular album. I hope that helps although probably not what you wanted to hear. Let us know if you discover something different!
I have a question, I recently switched from Pixel back to iPhone. My Wife and I use Google photos shared album to drop pictures to one another as they maintain quality better than Whatsapp. However recently any photo I have taken now appears in her photos and not just the ones I have intentionally moved into our shared album. Neither of us have the 'share with a partner' option turned on so cannot work out why my wife receives everything from my phone. Help would be much appreciated!
That is odd. The only thing I can think is that you have somehow turned the album into a Live Album. Live albums will automatically add photos of the people or pets that you specify (it’s in the options section). Does that sound like a possibility?
Question: I have my childrens email on my cell phone. I am finding my photos are being shared on with their google photos. How do I stop this from occurring?
Thank you for this.Video
I have a question; when someone shares an album with you...do those photos take up the memory on my iPhone? and What if I want to remove myself from the shared album?
Hi, Veronica - shared photo albums don’t take up space on your phone unless you download the photos from them. And you can remove yourself from the shared album by choosing the option “Leave Album.” Hope this helps!
Hii, i had a question… so my iPhone camera roll is constantly telling me that my storage is full and I can’t take any photos or videos…i have a google account so I have google photos…i tried to delete some photos from my camera roll but they got deleted from google photos too… but I saw an option on google photos where it said that there are some backed up photos on google photos which can be deleted from the device so should I do it? And if I do will those photos get deleted from google photos too?
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@@marblejarchannel hi I deleted the photos on cameral roll from goigle photos which were backed up but now my Google photos has no more space left and my camera roll is still showing that my storage is full what do I do now?
You may have to delete your recently deleted photos. They will stay there for 30 days unless you go in and clear it out.
@@marblejarchannel just did that it still isn’t working:( thanks for replying back ♥️ I really appreciate you trying to help me
copied link to send to myself and got error with google server did I do something wrong
So helpful
I searched for photos from a specific month and year and, inadvertently, shared the search link, thinking I was sharing just one photo from that search. Is the recipient able to view everything dated in that month or year?
Hi, Karen -- I don't think that you allow access even if you inadvertently share a search link. I think you have to have allowed access through either individual photos or through an album. If you test that and find that I'm wrong, come back and tell us! Thanks for the comment.
@@marblejarchannel Thank you for the prompt reply. I am trying to figure out how best to test what the recipient actually sees. I'll let you know!
Well done and answered a number of questions for me. Here's a question I've not been able to find an answer to. Once or twice a day I receive an automatically created Google album. (So far, it's not an annoyance.) The albums are usually created around recent photos or people. Whenever I've tried to share that album, it only shares the first photo. Do you have any instructions on how to share the Google created album?
Hi, Larry -- I'm not entirely sure what you are seeing, but if you are talking about the "memories" that Google Photos offers, in order to share those, you would have to select the photos that they choose based on their algorithm, create an album, and then share it. Let me know if that answers your question!
Hi, nicely done. "Sharing" gets harder by the minute, especially if your recipient has no interest in "joining" anything. My question: Do you know if photos are shared in full resolution (300 dpi for JPEGs) or are they downgraded to lesser dpi resolution, as is the case with SmugMug. (Dropbox currently is the only service I know of that doesn't degrade resolution, but they are making it increasing difficult to "share" without becoming a Dropbox client. (Too many words, sorry, but have been fighting this problem for a while, and Google doesn't seem to meet my needs either.)
Hi, Kent -- you can choose the size to Upload to Google Photos. I choose Original, which preserves the file size!
Oh yes, the Album vs. the Shared Album. This is the bane of my existence. Hey Google, hire some Apple guys, will you?
Thanks for sharing this. is there a way to create nested folders inside an album? I'm wanting to have a social media album with my team with images for each client. I would be fine without nested folders but seems that the image title isn't visible in google photos. It would be great to have a prompt to rename images in albums are one layer deep
Hi, Isaac - I agree that I don’t see a way to do this either. There is no option to create nested albums and there doesn’t appear to be a way to rename image names (although you can add a description) at least on the iOS app. You can swipe up on a photo to see all of that information.
Pinterest allows sub folders,,, and is much better at album management
How can I send all albums in a link?
Hi , my partner shared their Google photos with me I set so everything is saved automatically to my Google photos . If they ever stop sharing their Google photos with me are these photos that are saved in my Google photos only be deleted?
As long as those photos are saved in your account (so showing up in your Photos, not just in Albums), then they can delete their account and you will still have access!
Whoever I share an album link with will only be able to access that album and none of my other photos, correct? Also, if I want them to be able to download photos from that same album is there some other step?
Yes, that’s right. They will have to click to download the photos on their side once they have access to the album.
If we share Google photo by like so how we know if whether he view that or not ..is there any way ??
I don't think you can tell if they have viewed it unless they leave a comment.
What is meant by little profile photo in bottom right of a photo
Nice
I tried to share a pic to twitter when i clicked on it later it just took me to my page see photos screenshots etc. Ive been panicked people saw my whole camera reel. I went into a diff twitter account and saw everything. Is it just my device knows its me. Why was the pic not there? And could people see my whole reel and my ugly pics.
Hi, Roz -- I would just make sure that you have shared a single photo and not a full album from Google Photos. I don't think you can share your entire account except for through "partner sharing" which you can only do with one other person.
@@marblejarchannel ive not slept Ithink it has shared my entire account. It classed the lot as an album. It wont let you share just one pic. I went back in and did the same and i didnt read the message right. It says this link will share your album something like that even though I had hilighted one pic.😢😢😢
how can I delete a contact?
How do you get it to not show the date and time? Not talking about location because that's already turned off for others however I do not want my phone information and the date and time to be shown is there a way to turn that off for people that have the link or sharing the album too?
I don’t have an answer to this. Perhaps someone else will be able to help you!
Hey. Thanks for the information. Do you know what happens when a partner stops sharing Google photos? Will that person's name be shown in the place of partner sharing once s/he stopped sharing?
I'm not entirely sure, but I think those photos would just go away unless you had added them to your own collection/library. If you find something different, will you let us all know here?
Hi there! Thank you for this information. I was also struggling with the difference between albums and shared albums. I have created an album with texts between the rows of pics as I set them up. I shared the link with a friend but she sees only individual pics at a time with the text boxes strewn around between them rather than the organized album with text as I set it up. She does not have a google account, but this shouldn't make a difference, should it? I copied me on the email to her with the link and when I click on it I see the album with the text as I created it. Thanks for any help or referrals for this question.
Hi, Sue - I’m having a hard time envisioning what you are saying. Are you saying that you commented on your photos? Or gave them captions? And she is seeing things differently than you? Each person will see things differently depending on what kind of device they are viewing the album on - but the captions should end up with the photo that you attached them to.
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Thank you! Yes, I was referring to the captions. I put under that photos. My friend was probably using her mobile phone rather than a laptop, so that’s probably why she didn’t see the photos the way I laid them out. Thank you so much for this valuable information!
Thanks for the video, question from me. Is there an option for me to create a shared album where not everyone with the link automatically has access but they can request access and I as the owner of that album can than decide whether to grant access to that person or not?
Hi, Tjard -- in this case, you would want to create a album that was invitation only (meaning no global or link only access), send out that link and ask them to request access once they receive the link. Then you can add or grant access as they request.
Is there a way I can access my mother in law photos from my computer so I can organize her photos? We live in different states so I want to help her from home.
Hi, there! In this case, since you want to help her organize her photos, I would ask for her login info and log into Google Photos as her.
Do you know how to save a photo to the shared album and leave it in that album but maybe delete it from your camera roll?
I don't think you can do this. I think a photo must be in your camera roll to be in a photo album!
If I am the owner of a shared album and I want to free up some space from my Google account, can I remove the pictures from the album without the other person loosing the pictures?
Basically, can the owner leave the album without the others loosing the pictures? Does it dissolve the album?
Unfortunately, if you leave as the owner, the album won't exist for anyone else. I don't know if you can switch ownership and then leave?
Is there a way to make a shared album permanently available to those it is shared with. When looking at the shared section I notice that it only continues to show shared items going back a short period of time. Some albums have been shared years ago but they are no longer shown.
This is interesting. I looked back and all of the old albums I have shared are still showing up as shared. I don't know whether anyone else can comment who has had this experience!
@@marblejarchannel Thank you :) When I said albums shared years ago I should have said many years ago... like even before 2010 and when it was still Picasa. My 'Sharing' section only shows a few years... say back to 4 or 5. It would be nice to be able to revisit those albums that were shared with me long ago. I've tried searching for old links through Gmail 'Search' but that's not helpful either. Anyway, thanks for your reply 🌻
With link sharing will this protect my album from anyone editing or deleting my photos in my album?
Once you create the link, you'll need to make sure that the Collaboration option is turned off in order to stop people from adding their own photos to your album. Even with that turned on, people won't be able to delete or edit your photos!
@@marblejarchannel should I allow
“Comments and like “ on? And is it possible to send a link that includes all albums in one link?
@@LubaLuba1 Sure, you can allow comments and like - that just lets people comment on your photos. I haven’t found a way to share multiple albums with one link. Hope that helps!
@@marblejarchannel So leaving collaboration on will allow other people to add photos to corresponding albums but they won't be able to delete my current albums / photos correct?
That is my understanding, yes!
If i join someone else's hared album will they see my photos and videos
They shouldn’t be able to see any of your photos unless you share them in the album that you joined.
How do I had the line to the bottom of my emails? Please
I mean the link
A friend used my phone to make a video. I sent it to them through Google Photos. If I delete it from the app will they still have it?
Only if your friend has downloaded it to their phone!
@@marblejarchannel Thank you!
I think/hope u solved my problems
if i share a video with someone can they see other videos i have not shared or only one i did???
They will only see the video that you share with them!
You talked to fast and it wasn't clear where the various things on phone were. I suppose I will have to watch more times or video to understand how to do this.
Hi, there! I do have a tendency to speak quickly unfortunately. I did want to give you some options: 1) you can slow down the speed of the video by hitting the three dots in the upper right hand corner, then Playback Speed, then choosing a slower speed and 2) I actually have scripts for all of my videos up at my website at www.marblejar.net. You can search that site for the script you are looking for, which may help to go back or review material. Thanks for the comment and I hope those options help!
Still confusing and you went too fast.
Hi, Sharon. I do tend to talk fast! If it helps - you can slow down most CZcams videos by hitting the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner and then Playback Speed. Also, all of my video scripts are online at my website, www.marble jar.net. Here is the script if it is helpful: www.marblejar.net/2021/01/understand-sharing-in-google-photos.html. Thanks for the comment!
My brain can't keep up with your fast speech? Me being older probably has something to do with that? Thanks anyway
Hi, there! I do have a tendency to speak quickly unfortunately. I did want to give you some options: 1) you can slow down the speed of the video by hitting the three dots in the upper right hand corner, then Playback Speed, then choosing a slower speed and 2) I actually have scripts for all of my videos up at my website at www.marblejar.net. You can search that site for the script you are looking for, which may help to go back or review material. Thanks for the comment and I hope those options help!