Use multiple accounts at once on your Google Assistant devices

When you set up multiple accounts on a device, you can get calendar updates from all your accounts while you stay signed in to one.

Find your photos on your Smart Display or Smart Clock

You can use your Smart Display’s or Smart Clock's ambient display as a digital picture frame for your Google Photos. Learn how to get started with Google Photos.

Important: Some features aren't available in all languages or countries.

On Smart Clocks, you can use the Google Assistant in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Assistant app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial.
3. Make sure you’re signed in to the additional account you want to use:
   1. Next to your email address, tap the Down arrow .
   2. If the account isn’t listed, tap Add another account.
4. Make sure your primary @gmail.com account is selected and shows at the top of Assistant settings. To switch accounts:
   1. Next to your email address, tap the Down arrow .
   2. Tap your primary @gmail.com account.
5. Tap You Accounts.
6. Below the account you want to use, tap Enable Continue.
7. Under “Devices,” next to the device you want to use, check the box.
   • You can choose multiple devices.
   • The phone you are using is enabled automatically.

   • If you want to use a Google Workspace account on your device but can’t select it, you must turn on Voice Match for the device. If you still can't select the device or can’t turn on Voice Match, contact your admin for more details.

Tip: You can also say, “Hey Google, enable my account” to enable multiple accounts on a device.

Turn off proactive personal results for an additional account

Set up a live album

You can create a photo album that automatically adds photos of your friends and family.

Smart Display

On your phone On your Smart Display Smart Clock

Set up multiple live albums

Each live album can hold up to 10,000 pictures. To display more pictures, you can create a new live album that only adds new photos from your library, rather than use older photos from your library.

Smart Display Smart Clock

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Assistant app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial You.  
3. Tap Accounts Select an account.
4.  Under "Devices," next to the device you want to turn off proactive results for, tap Edit Don’t show proactively Save.

Personal results

When you turn on personal results for your primary account, personal results also turn on for any additional accounts you add to the device. You can turn off personal results for additional accounts. For example, if you have an upcoming Meet meeting for your work account, you’ll get a notification to join the meeting.

If you turn off personal results from your primary account, personal results also turn off for any additional accounts you add to the device.

Voice Match or Face Match

To access personal results, you may need to turn on Voice Match or Face Match for your primary account.

Tip: When you use multiple accounts, your Assistant device shows events from the primary calendar of all your accounts.

If you have Web & App Activity turned on, your Assistant activity is saved to your account. When you use the Assistant with more than one account, your activity only saves on your main account.

If one of your accounts is through school or work, your admin always has access to any data that’s saved with this account. For example, if you create or modify a calendar event. The “Web & App Activity” of your main account is always private.

Control photos from your Smart Display

When your album shows on your Smart Display, you can take different actions like: 

• Navigate between photos.
• Favorite photo.
• Remove a photo.

To take action on the photos, say "Hey Google," then:

• "Next photo."
• "Previous photo."
• "When was this taken?"
• "Where was this taken?"
• "Favorite this photo."
• "Share this photo with [contact name]."
• "Remove this photo."

If you remove a photo, you’ll no longer find the photo on your Smart Display and it’ll be archived in Google Photos. Learn about what happens to archived photos.