Google Photos

Google LLC

About this app

Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.

- “The best photo product on Earth” – The Verge

- “Google Photos is your new essential picture app” – Wired



The official Google Photos app is made for the way you take photos today and includes essential features like shared albums, automatic creations and an advanced editing suite. Additionally every Google Account comes with 15 GB of storage and you can choose to automatically back up all your photos and videos in High quality or Original quality. You can then access them from any connected device and on photos.google.com.



With the official app, you get:



15 GB OF STORAGE: Back up 15 GB of photos and videos and access them from any device and photos.google.com—your photos are safe, secure, and private to you. All photos and videos you back up in High quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage.



FREE UP SPACE: Never worry about running out of space on your phone again. Photos that are safely backed up can be removed from your device's storage in just a tap.



AUTOMATIC CREATIONS: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, panoramas, and more from your photos. Or easily create them yourself.



ADVANCED EDITING SUITE: Transform photos with a tap. Use intuitive and powerful photo editing tools to apply content-aware filters, adjust lighting, and more.



SHARING SUGGESTIONS: With smart sharing suggestions, giving your friends the photos you took of them is painless. And they can add their photos, too, so you’ll finally get the photos you’re actually in.



FAST AND POWERFUL SEARCH: Your photos are now searchable by the people, places and things in them — no tagging required.



LIVE ALBUMS: Select the people and pets you want to see and Google Photos will automatically add photos of them as you take them, no manual updates needed.*



PHOTO BOOKS: Create a photo book in just minutes from your phone or computer. You can also see suggested photo books based on your best shots from a trip or period of time.*



GOOGLE LENS: Search the hard-to-describe and get stuff done, right from a photo. Copy and translate text, identify plants and animals, add events to your calendar, find products online, and more.



SEND PHOTOS IN SECONDS: Instantly share photos with any contact, email, or phone number.



SHARED LIBRARIES: Grant a trusted person access to all of your photos.



You can also upgrade storage for your Google Account, used for Original Quality photos and videos by subscribing to Google One. Subscriptions start at $1.99/month for 100 GB in the US. Pricing and availability can vary by region.

- Google One Terms of Service: https://one.google.com/terms-of-service

- One Google Pricing: https://one.google.com/about



For additional help visit https://support.google.com/photos



Google Photos is also available on Wear OS for the Google Pixel Watch. Set your favorite photos as your watch face.



*Face grouping, live albums and photo books are not available in all countries.

Ratings and reviews

So far I'm finding Google Photos useful... With one BIG flaw... I used to be able to write on a photo in edit mode, but it is no longer there. With all the freaking updates, it seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle! Also, there should be an option to time/date stamp a photo, but as far as I can tell it isn't an option. Plus, in my storage, I would like to be able to name photos. These options would get you 5⭐ instead of 4!

Photos pairs really well with the Pixel 7 and the features are really cool. However, as someone who likes to take pictures and to have freedom with the pictures I take, Google makes that a rather significant challenge, especially compared to the competition. The device's camera is pretty much the only consideration I make when purchasing a phone. I don't care for Googles storage, which can be turned off, but Pixel 7 is so in-your-face about unwanted storage, it's maddening.

Can be useful at times, but somehow the pictures saved are appearing on different dates than when they were saved. For example, I'll have a pic saved/backed-up on 3/15/23 but the picture will appear under different date, like in this case 3/14/23. It bothers me that it's not in the right date. If I save a picture that is backed-up into the wee hours of the day, save it under that date & NOT the previous date. Please fix this. Plus, some pics would duplicate themselves but wouldnt effect storage.

What's new

We are introducing a new storage management tool to help you easily manage the photos that count toward your storage quota. This tool will surface photos or videos you might want to delete — like blurry photos, screenshots and large videos.