If you use your phone to take a lot of photos with close friends or family, you can easily share photos and videos with specific people using the partner sharing feature of the Google Photos app. If you set this feature up, others can see what's in your photo library in the app, but the app gives you full control over what they can access.
To set up partner sharing in Google Photos to automatically share some or all of your photos and videos with specific people:
What is the Partner Sharing feature?
With partner sharing in Google Photos, you can automatically share photos and videos with the people you choose. This is an easy way to make photos shared on Google Photos easier to access, and it's a great feature to use with your best friend or someone you take a lot of photos with, since it's only one person using this feature.
To share photos and videos in Google Photos:
To start partner sharing, go to the Google Photos app on your phone and follow the steps below:
- Go to the Sharing tab and select Share with a partner.
- You'll be taken to a page that says "Share the photo with your favorite people" and options for what to share with the people you selected, as well as the date you start sharing the photo.
- In the "Choose a start date" section, select "Always" if you don't mind sharing all the photos with your partner since you started using Google Photos. But remember that this will make him see everything. If you prefer to select a specific date, click on the (start from specific date) option and select a specific date from the pop-up calendar.
- In the (Select photos to share) section, select the photos you want to share with your friends, then click the Photos Only With Selected People option to choose photos with specific people.
- You will be taken to a page with all the faces of the people whose photos you have in Google Images. Select only those whose photos you want to share with others.
- Click the Done button to return to the Share Photos with Favorites page. Then click on the Select Partner option and select from the list of suggestions or enter the email address of the person you want to share the photo with. picture. Then click Confirm to send them an email invitation.
To stop sharing photos with people you've added through partner sharing:
If you need to remove someone you added through partner sharing in Google Photos, follow these steps:
- Go to the Google Photos app and tap your profile picture.
- Click on (Picture Settings) and select (Partner Sharing).
- Click on the three dots button and select (Stop sharing your photos).
- Select (Stop Sharing) to stop sharing.