Find & manage your featured Memories

You can use Google Photos to automatically organize your photos and videos into a timeline of meaningful moments. You can customize your memories and share them with others.

1. On your Android device, open the Google Photos app .
2. At the bottom, tap Photos.
3. At the top, tap a featured memory.
   • To move to the next or previous photo: Tap or swipe right or left.
   • To skip to the next or previous memory: Swipe up or down.
   • To pause on a photo: Touch and hold it.
4. To exit a featured memory, at the top, tap Close .

If you edit the title of any featured memory, the title changes in Memories view. To edit a memory’s title from your featured memories carousel:

1. On your Android device, open the Google Photos app .
2. In your featured memories carousel, tap a memory.
3. At the bottom, tap More Edit album title.

1. On your Android device, open the Google Photos app .
2. At the top, tap your account Profile photo or initial Photos settings .
3. Tap Preferences Memories Memory types.
4. Turn off Time-based memories and Themed memories.
5. Tap Creations.
6. Turn off all types of creations:
   • Animations
   • Cinematic photos
   • Collages
   • Color Pops
   • Stylized photos

Tip:

• If you still want to view featured memories, but don’t want to be alerted when a new memory is available, you can turn off your memories notifications.
• If you don’t want to turn off featured memories completely, you can also hide specific people, pets and dates from appearing in memories above the Photos view.
  • Learn how to hide people and pets.
  • Learn how to hide a date.

Important: The “hide a face” settings apply to photos in the featured memories carousel.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Photos app .
2. At the top, tap your account Profile photo or initial Photos settings.
3. Tap Preferences Memories Hide faces.
4. Under “Show less” or “Blocked,” tap Select faces.
   • Show less: You won’t get memories about them, but they may still appear in group photos included in memories.
   • Blocked: They won’t appear in memories, including group photos with others.
5. Choose who you want to hide.
6. Tap Done.
   • To show a face that was previously hidden, tap Remove next to the face.

You can also hide a face when you’re viewing a memory:

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Photos app .
2. In your featured memories carousel, tap a memory.
3. Swipe to a photo that contains the face you want to hide.
4. At the bottom, tap More .
5. Next to the face you want to hide, tap More Hide face from memories.
6. Tap Show less or Block face.

Tip:

• It may take some time for these changes to take effect.
• Face hiding may not work perfectly in all photos.
• If you can’t find faces, you can also hide a date.

Important: When you hide a date, you won't get photos taken on that date in the featured memories carousel.

1. On your Android device, open the Google Photos app .
2. In your featured memories carousel, tap a memory.
3. Tap More Hide.
   • To hide a memory: Tap Remove this memory.
   • To hide a photo from a memory: Tap Remove this photo from this memory.

Tip: You can also hide a face or a data from appearing in memories above the Photos view:

• To hide a date from all memories: Tap Hide this date from all memories.
• To hide people and pets from all memories: Tap Hide people & pets.

You can select which types of creations you can find in your memories.

When you create a new album in Memories view, the album highlight can also appear in your featured memories carousel. Learn how to edit your memories.

When you take photos on a different device, the date displayed in Google Photos may be incorrect. If your featured memories display the wrong date, you can change the date and timestamps on the photos.

Important: When you change the date and time of your photo, Google Photos displays the updated date and time. If you share the photo to other apps or download it, the photo may show the original date and time saved by your camera.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
2. At the top, tap a memory in your featured memories carousel.
3. At the bottom, tap More View day.
4. Tap a photo.
5. At the top, tap More .
6. Next to the date & timestamp, tap Edit .
7. Select a new date and time.
8. Tap Save.

Tips:

• Photos taken before 4 AM are sorted into the previous day.
• You can only change the date and timestamps in the Google Photos app for backed up photos.

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