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.

Find featured memories

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. At the top of Photos view, in a carousel, you can find featured memories.
    • To find more memories, click the Arrow .
  4. To open a featured memory, click it.
  5. To exit a featured memory, at the top, click Close .

Tips:

  • Featured memories are updated frequently.
  • You can find some of your featured memories as albums in Memories view on your mobile device.
  • To turn off the music:
    1. Open a featured memory.
    2. At the top, click Volume .

Share a featured memory

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. At the top, click a memory in your featured memories carousel.
  3. At the top, click Share and then Share memory and then Share .
  4. Select people to share the memory with and then Send Send.

Tip: If you want to remove a photo or change the memory title before you share, click Edit.

Manage your featured memories

Important: Changes you make to these settings only apply to the featured memories carousel, not the Memories view. Learn how to edit your memories.

You can change your settings to control what appears in your featured memories carousel.

Turn off featured memories
  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Settings .
  3. Next to "Memories," click Expand Down arrow.
  4. Under "Featured memories," turn off Time-based memories and Themed memories.
  5. Under “Creations,” to turn off, click all types of creations:
    • Animations
    • Cinematic photos
    • Collages
    • Color Pops
    • Stylized photos

Tip: 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.

Control which memories you receive

You can choose the types of memories you find in the featured memories carousel. When you select at least one memory type, the featured memories carousel appears above the photo grid.

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Settings .
  3. Next to "Memories," click Expand Down arrow.
  4. Under "Featured memories," select the type of memories you want to find.
Hide someone

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

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Settings .
  3. Scroll to "Memories.”
  4. Click Hide faces.
  5. Under “Show less” or “Blocked,” click 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.
  6. Choose who you want to hide.
  7. Click Done.
    • To show a face that was previously hidden, click Remove Remove next to the face.

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

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. At the top, click a memory in your featured memories carousel.
  3. To find the photos in the memory, click the Down arrow Down arrow.
  4. Click a photo that contains the face you want to hide.
  5. At the top, click Info Info.
  6. Next to the face you want to hide, click More More and then Hide face from memories.
  7. Click 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.
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 computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Settings .
  3. Scroll to "Memories."
  4. Select Hide dates.
  5. Add the date of the photos you want to hide.
    • To remove a hidden date, select Remove Remove.
Hide a memory from your featured memories
  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. In your featured memories carousel, click a memory.
  3. Click More More and then Remove memory and then Remove.
Control whether your memories contain creations
You can select which types of creations you can find in your memories.
  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Settings .
  3. Scroll to "Memories."
  4. Under "Featured memories," select which types of creations you want to find in your memories.
Change date & timestamp

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 computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. At the top, click a memory in your featured memories carousel.
  3. To find the photos in the memory, click the Down arrow Down arrow.
  4. Hover over a photo or video.
  5. Click Select Select.
    • To update more than one item at once, select multiple photos or videos.
  6. At the top, click More More and then Edit date & time.
    • If you select more than one item:
      • To update the date and time for the first item: Click Shift dates & times. The date and time for the other items will automatically shift in a relative manner.
      • To set the same date and time for all the items you select: Click Set one date & time.
  7. To finish, follow the on-screen instructions.

Tip: Photos taken before 4 AM are sorted into the previous day.

Learn about creations

Creations made for you may appear in Memories view and in your featured memories carousel.

Check if something was created for you
  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. When you click into a memory, creations that were auto-generated appear.
Tip: If you back up photos that are good candidates for a Pop Out effect, Google Photos may generate it automatically for you. Learn more about creations.

Save Creations

You can save creations that are made for you like highlight videos or animations.

To save creations from your featured memories carousel, at the bottom, select Save. You can find saved creations in your Photos view.

Find Creations you saved

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
    • In the Photos view, you can find your saved creations with other photos and videos.
  2. To search for the creations you saved, click Explore.
  3. At the bottom, in the "Creations" section, click the type of creation you want, or click Saved creations.

Make Creations

You can make your own collage, animation, or highlight video from your photos and videos.

To make your own creation:

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. On the right, click Utilities.
  3. Under “Utilities,” find options to create an Animation, Collage, or Movie.

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