How to Create Albums in Google Photos

Aug 20, 2023

Regular Google Photos user and keen to organise your pictures? Albums can help you group your snaps together. Here's how to create albums.

Many people opt to use Google Photos to back up and manage photos and images collected over the years. And why not? Google Photos has great cross-platform availability, a simple UI, and storage syncs across all Google cloud-based services.

Plus, Google Photos offers an album feature, which is important for grouping your pictures and sharing them with other people. And sometimes, you can’t use images on Google Photos for specific tasks unless they are in an album. So, we’ll walk you through how to make albums on a smartphone and on the web.

After downloading Google Photos from the App Store or Play Store, and you’ve figured out how to upload to Google Photos, you can begin to create albums. The process is pretty much the same on both iPhone and Android.

Here’s how to do it:

If the photos you mean to add were recently captured, you can select them from the Google Photos home Photos page and tap Add to. When the menu appears, choose Album or Shared Album.

If you don’t wish to use a phone or simply don’t have access to one, you could do your Google Photos album management all on a browser on your computer.

Follow the steps below:

You should now have albums that will sync to Google Photos across all your devices.

Here are some tips that you might find useful as you navigate Google Photos:

Granted, Google makes it easy to navigate huge piles of photos thanks to its neat by-date grouping and innovative Google Lens features. However, you could add an extra layer of personalized organization with albums.

Albums also let you share photos with other people so that you might all contribute to the album together. However, there are still other ways to share photos on Google Photos that are worth checking out.

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