You can use Google Photos to automatically sort your documents into useful albums like ID, receipts, and event information.
Find your document albums
- On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
- Click Documents.
Tip: If document albums aren’t there, you can:
- Make sure you’ve turned on backup. Document albums are only available for backed up photos. Learn how to turn backup on or off.
- Check back later. It takes some time to sort documents into their albums.
Turn automatic archive on or off
Important: The age of your photo is counted from the date it was created and not when it was shared.
When you turn on auto-archive, photos of your documents older than 30 days are hidden from your Photos view. They’re only available in the document albums. If you turn off auto-archive, any items archived earlier will remain archived. Learn how to unarchive items.
To turn auto-archive on or off:
- On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
- Click Documents.
- Select a document album.
- Turn Archive after 30 days on or off.
Tip: To manually archive individual photos from an album, hover over a photo and click Select . At the top, click More options
Manage your document albums
- On your computer, go to photos.google.com/documents.
- From a document album, select a photo.
- At the top, click the category label. For example, "Receipts."
- Click Change categories.
- Select a new document album to move the photo to.
- On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
- Click a photo.
- At the top, click More options
Add to Documents.
- Select the document album you want to add the photo to.
To add multiple photos to a document album at once:
- On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
- Hover over a photo.
- Click Select
.
- Click all of the photos you want to select.
- At the top, click Add to
- Select the document album you want to add the photo to.
