Share Google Photos and Videos with your family and love ones anywhere you are.
How to Share Google Photos and Videos: You can now share your Photos on Google photos app.
Google Photos is one of the most widely used photo and video backup services in the world, thanks to the popularity of Android smartphones. The service offers users the ability to back up their photos and videos from their smartphones or tablets, allowing access on other signed-in devices. However, Google also allows users the ability to share their images and videos with other Google users, as well as people who do not have a Google Account with the help of public links.
With the holidays coming up, here’s a handy guide to sharing your favourite images and videos on Google Photos, from the easiest (link sharing) to the fastest (Nearby Share) options on your smartphone or tablet.
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This method is used to share photos with someone who is not using google photos. It creates a public link to the photo(s) you share.
- Open the Google Photos app on your smartphone or tablet.
- Identify the photos or videos you want to share, then tap and drag to select.
- Tap the Share icon that appears, and look for the Create link option.
- Open an app like WhatsApp or Gmail, then paste the link to share it.
This might not be the private method, but it may be convenient; as anyone with the link can access the shared images or videos. If you want a more private way to share your images, you can do so via the Google Photos in-app messaging service or via a shared album.
If you are near the person you want to share the album with someone who is in the same room, you can also share images and heavy videos quickly and wirelessly, using Nearby Share.
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- Open the Google Photos app on your smartphone or tablet.
- Tap Sharing and then choose Create shared album.
- After providing an album title, tap on Select photos to pick images and videos.
- Once you have selected all the images you need, tap on Share.
- You can now pick contacts to share within the Google Photos app.
- These contacts will see the shared album in their Google Photos app.
- Open the Google Photos app on your smartphone or tablet.
- Tap to select a photo, or tap and drag to select images and videos to share.
- Select the Share button that appears.
- Look for the Send in Google Photos section.
- Choose contacts to share the photos with.
- On your Android smartphone, open the Google Photos app.
- Tap to select a photo, or tap and drag to select images and videos to share.
- Select the Share button that appears.
- Tap on the Nearby share option, then select the user(s) you want to share with.
- The recipient will also need to check their settings to enable Nearby Share.
- Ask the recipient to tap Accept in order to begin the transfer and wait until it is completed.
