

In this case, the original location your device saved shows without any edits you made in Google Photos.Įven if you hide your photos' locations from people, they can guess the location based on landmarks in your photo. This doesn't affect photos or videos you share outside of Google Photos, such as when you download and email them to someone.

You can control if your location is shared in each shared album, link, or conversation you create or join. The photos should now download from Google Photos to your phones default gallery. But there wasn’t a dedicated destination inside the Google Photos app where you could find all the different ways to import photos.If you share a photo with Google Photos, the location of your photo may be shared if you added it, changed it, or if it was provided by your camera. There was also a way to import to Google Photos from other services within Facebook and iCloud. iOS users could even sync their Favorites from their iPhone’s photo gallery to Google Photos’ favorites. And previously, users could set their app to back up the photos on their device. Not all these import options are new - PhotoScan, for instance, used to be under Utilities. This import option will allow users to copy photos from rival services including iCloud, Facebook and Pixieset digitize their photos, videos and film back up from device folders move photos into Google Photos from a camera or scan photos using Google’s PhotoScan.

Below the album grid, Google Photos is adding a new “import photos” section alongside the buttons for the ( newer) Locked Folder, utilities, archive and trash features. Another feature is designed to help Google Photos become your centralized photo storage location, if it’s not already.
