Label your face group

When you label your face group as "me", you:

Get more personalized creations. For example, a highlight video that has photos of you.
Get personalized search. You can search “me” to easily find photos of yourself.
Make it easier for contacts to get suggestions to share with you. When your contacts take photos of you, they may get a suggestion to share photos they have of you with you.
Gain a sense of where you are over time. You can know where you were at different times in your life based on the locations of photos where your face appears.

Note: This feature is not available in all geographic regions.

Confirm your face group & help your contacts get suggestions to share photos with you

If you label your own face group from settings, you help the Google Photos app on your contacts' devices group images of you. Then, Google Photos can send them suggestions to share photos they have of you with you.

On your computer, open photos.google.com.
At the top, click Settings .
Next to "Group similar faces," click the Down arrow .
Turn on Face Groups if it isn't on already.
Under "No face labeled as Me,” click Choose.
Select your face.
Click Ok. This will automatically turn on Help contacts recognize your face.

Who can get suggestions to share photos with you

Contacts that you’ve interacted with in Google Photos or Gmail may get a suggestion to share photos they have of you with you.
If you interact with new contacts via Google Photos shared albums or Gmail, these new contacts may get a suggestion to share photos with you.
If you delete shared albums or emails with some contacts, they may no longer get suggestions to share with you.

To check which contacts may currently get suggestions, go to photos.google.com/settings/contacts.

Tip: The contacts settings page isn't available in all regions.

If you don’t want someone to get suggestions, you can block them. Learn how to block someone.

Things to know

If you label your “Me” face group and help your contacts recognize your face in photos:

Your contacts may get suggestions to send photos of you to you, but you won’t be publicly tagged in photos. Public tagging is not available on Google Photos.
Your contacts may get a suggestion to share, but they can choose if they want to share with you.
Even if you don't label a face group as "me", your contacts might get suggestions to share with you if they've shared photos of you to you in the past.

Change or remove the “me” face label

If you select the wrong face, you can change the “me” face label to the right face. You can also remove your face group, but you’ll get fewer personalized creations and it will be harder for your contacts to get suggestions to share with you.

On your computer, open photos.google.com.
At the top, click Settings .
Next to "Group similar faces," click the Down arrow .
Click Face labeled as me.
Select a face to confirm the correct face group, or click Remove Remove label.

Start or stop letting contacts get suggestions based on your “me” face label

Your contacts won’t be able to get suggestions to share photos of you based on this label, but you’ll still get personalized highlight videos and animations.

On your computer, open photos.google.com
At the top, click Settings .
Next to "Group similar faces," click the Down arrow .
Turn off Help contacts recognize your face.

Related resources

Face Groups retention policy

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