Table of Contents 00:00 Introduction 01:24 Memories 02:46 Memories Preferences 04:16 Facebook Memories 05:10 Preferences in Mobile 07:02 Search 07:30 Search in Mobile 08:27 Search by Activity or Item 09:21 Organization 09:51 Sharing on Desktop 10:33 Sharing in Mobile 12:30 Google Lens

One useful tip for conserving storage in Google photos that no one talks about is cropping your photos. If you crop unimportant parts out of a photo, save it as a copy and delete the original copy, you would've freed up some space. Do that for hundreds and thousands of photos overtime and it really makes a huge difference. For instance, do you really need the grey sky in the background of a photo of your cat? No, your cat is the main focus. So crop out the sky

Great tips! I had a dog named Farley 30 years ago - a little Scottish terrier. She was a lovely little girl and it took me years to be able to think of her with a smile rather than tearing up.

Thank you Steve. Google Lens has just blown me away. I can now I'd birds I don't recognise from my photos. Fantastic.

Dotto, You Sir, are a true DOG man. I have to respect that. Take all the time you need.

I'm sorry about your loss. I actually came to this video right after going into Google Photos for the first time in years and having memories presented that also hurt to see so I for sure understand where you're coming from. Thanks for the tips.

I wish google photos had sub-albums or categories to put albums under. I have over a 100+ albums. Would be nice to categories them like, friends, family, vacations, etc...

A tremendously comprehensive note here about Google Photos. I'd like to see something about taking say, hard drives of photos/content and shunting it up to Google Photos/part of the space I'm paying for and then having Google Photos begin including them. Thanks again for great content! You are appreciated!

Love that you add a "jump ahead" option!

Another great feature of the search, if you are looking for photos of 2 or more specific people, they must be identified in photos then search "name and name"

Thank you so much. I didn't even get half way through your video when I discovered Google's Photoscan. That app is also absolutely awesome. Now we don't have to have a separate scanner to scan in photos. We can just use our smart phone!!!

So very happy and grateful to have found your channel!!! Just what I've needed for years questioning, why can't I do this or that? Okay, you have shown me how I can!!! I will be reviewing this video several times, practicing, until I finally get it!!

Good tips. I use Lens a lot while hiking to identify flowers, plants, bugs, etc. Google Lens stand-alone app is best to download for this.

I just started using Google Lens, Awesome!

Hi Steve. I so appreciate the humanity you bring to this thread.And no better example than the point you so movingly make about intrusive memories. Thanks for all you do and have done over the years. You have no serious rivals.

Thanks for getting back to your DottoTech videos. They are the best. Another feature you insure is awesome audio. I can understand what you say!! Far too many presenters do not take the effort, as do you, to make sure the viewer/listener really benefits. Thanks.

I have the same grief issues with photos. I understand about how sad you are about seeing photos of Farley because my animals are family members to me and when they have passed I grieve for years. Thank you for all that you do to help us😢

Just when I think I’m a Goog know-it-all, you teach me something new. Thanks Steve!

Thank you for all the cool tips! I just found you a couple days ago, and I am so glad I did! Your presentation is great, and your subject matter is interesting. Well rounded and to the point! I really enjoy your show! I look forward to seeing many more of your creations! Thank you again and God bless!

You are a treasure! Thank you!

Thank you for the tips. I loved using the lens on my new Pixel 6 - I took a photo of my husband and it came up with photos of Bernie Sanders! Love it.

Just chanced upon your Google Photo and Maps tutorials both are enjoyable to watch and informative to an educational level. Thanks for the help understanding our technology.

sorry about Farley. lost my best friend last year. Tough times. hang in there. appreciate your work, man.

Thank you for the info about Google Lens, super awesome! After watching your video and started playing with it, and something so cool, if you a "busy photo" with many elements you can adjust the "focus" of the Google lens to search a particular part of the photo. Very useful, thank you!!

memories. when i look back at myself 10 years ago, it make me sad. i'm growing old. time flies..

I use Google photos to document every new piece of equipment that I get. I take pictures of the shipping labels and the labels on the equipment. And I take pictures of the insides of the computers to document the chips. Then I use Google docs or Google sheets to include those pictures into a document that allows me to continue to record the history of my working on that piece of equipment such as even links to or images of manuals. Also, shortcuts and passwords.

The other day Google photos put pictures of me and my puppy on my memories so I can completely relate with what you're talking about. I Miss Betty bites

Glad you made this video! The part about Google Lens really helped explain it to me and in testing it out as I watched your video really showed me how powerful a tool it can be. One feature I'd really like to see added to Google Photos would be a way to group albums under a "main folder" as sub folders, as is possible with MS Photo Gallery, which I use on my Win 10 laptop. This way albums for vacations, family, pets, events, etc, could be grouped by category and much easier to find, especially when doing any type of comparisons. I know the search feature can help with this but in many cases, just having albums under the same category, such as those for one's 2021 and 2022 vacations being next to each other would help greatly. As it stands now, I sometimes have to go through my whole list of albums to find a particular one, even though there may be several albums that could go under a specific category, such as "vacations". My 2021 and 2022 vacation albums won't necessarily be together, so finding one doesn't guarantee that the other will be next to it as it would when I am using Photo Gallery. If there is a feature like this, or a technique I can use to find similar category albums, please let us know. Thanks, and again, a great video!

Thx Steve, well done. One great feature of Google lens is to point at a piece of text you want to copy, eg a label. Then options appear and you have the possibility to copy directly to the clipboard of your computer, and you can paste as editable text in any document . Just sayin...amazing.

Brilliant video, Steve! I use Google Photos all the time so knew some of these, but certainly a couple I didn't - hiding memories is a great features, and thank you for such a clear description of Google Lens, which had always puzzled me. Great work!

Hey Steve great to find you again! I remember you from ~10+ years ago. Up to about10 or 15 years ago Google Maps had the ability to make elevation maps outside of the cycle tab. It was great for showing elevational changes on rivers, hillslopes or even the Grouse Grind.

Thank you!! I just got a memory pop up a couple weeks ago with my ex & don’t want it. I don’t want to delete the photos because of our children, but I don’t want the memories showing up either. You solved my problem!

Dear Steve..... I feel your pain. I just lost my friend and confidant, my Cocker Max. The pain is as great as the love. My condolences.

Omg. This so awesome. Thanks for sharing. Found your channel yesterday and watching all your amazing videos.

Google also reads and remembers text in your photos/screenshots. So if there’s any text in something you’re looking for, search for that as well. I find it useful when searching for car photos, you can search by it’s number plate ( or part of it) as well as by make, color, ( or both together), or if you know the year or location taken. I find this useful at work and can save a lot of time looking for a car photo/s.

Thank you so much 🙏... I especially like the lens feature.

Distance tremendous information and I learned so much thank you

I remember you on the telly. How far we've come!

I lost my beloved Dusty too in 2020 he was only 8. Like you I too have heaps of photos of Dusty. I like looking at him but it's also sad and I miss him so much .

Thx for making me "glad today" 😉 Best from Bavaria 🇩🇪

Very useful reminder, thank you.

Great to see someone else mention the memories filters. Absolutely our mental health and well-being is affected by 'hey remember when?' Hurts a lot in some instances. Definitely surprising for me too why Google doesn't promote these functions to users. Think it would be rather cool if they did. Once again, great video. thank you Cheers from Canada 🍁 🍁

Amazing! Outstanding! Your videos are the best thing I've found on KZfaq ever! Love the way you use graphics, text highlights and summary recaps.

Well done sir. I'm sorry to hear about Farley!

Thank you sir God bless you for helping me. Please keep it up sir

Really excellent on all the points Very useful. Thanks alot

This is great, Steve can I replace Gallery on Samsung with Google photos so that my photos go into it immediately, even from WhatsApp? Also can I resize and change the picture as in Gallery?

Learned so much from this video!!!

I love Google Lens for translation and copying text off of a photo.

Hi Steve, thanks for another great video. When discussing the sharing options for Google photos you mentioned that selecting photos on the Android app was a bit finicky. The trick is to do a longer press on the first image that you want to share and then just simply quick tap the remainder of the photos that you wish to share.

Great tips Steve, thank you

Excellent video, well structured and to the point. The recap is very usefull. Thanks again!

I learned so much on this video

Several of these will proof useful.

you always have such great, informative videos. Thank you

As always, you are succinct and entertaining. I love your videos. Thanks for your persistence.

Thanks for this video I never know all those settings.

Hey Steve, came across you by accident whilst searching for cataloging old photos, some really useful information here. I have loads of old photos and want to know the best way of digitalising them for future generations, any ideas would be great. Thanks for posting this video, well done, I have now subscribed as well.

Very useful. I'd love to see a video of how to do basic editing in Google photos. For example how do you edit a picture and also retain the original? Can you somehow duplicate it and then just edit one copy?

Awesome !!! thanks for sharing wonderful tips.

Thank you for sharing these cool (and somehow creepy) features. I'm sorry for your loss, I can relate :(

This post was very informative & to-the-point. You made me so much smarter than I was on these items. Thanks! Now, I’m curious whether you’ve covered the Memories feature in greater depth. Mainly, I’m curious about the ins & outs of “editing” the suggested Memoies, i.e. adding/deleting images, applying different FX to images in Memories (Ken Burns Effect, etc.) as well as choosing different background audio, (say like using my own original music) & lastly, whether the Memory can be exported as a video. ☮️

I love the search capability of Google Photos. If you can remember the month (or date) this too is another way to find a particular photo. Also; “dog”, “water”, or a particular person. These search features are POWERFUL especially if you take a lot of photos. Great video!

Best technology tutorial ever!

Thank you. I love your explanations.

What a great video thank you so much for sharing.

Fantastic! Many thanks, Steve. 😊

Fantastic tips, thank you for sharing

Thank you so much for these useful tips. Could you please spend some time on how to include a picture in an email? I struggle with that so much, I just don’t get it. Maybe because I am creating an email in outlook and want to include a picture from Google photo’s. Thank you so much!

Wow. KZfaq recommended a new channel that's good. 🤔 Subscribed. 😎

Beautiful dog is huge in your background

Great video thanks.

Thank you so much for this! I am going to try out Google Lens to see if it is a nest of honeybees or hornets that I took a picture of in a tree in the back yard the other day.

How do you add photos to and existing folder/album After I select the photo

I love using Google photos and I learned a couple new tips from you today. I’m working on scanning my parents old photos and was wondering if there’s some type of software like Google photos that I can use on a hard drive. I don’t want to load up my Google Photos even more. I’m already paying for storage. TIA!

Rad video, thank you!

Wonderful! I'd love to know more about the slide show function.

Hi, Dotto. Please help, I dont have the people button on my both phone and desktop. Is there a way to activate this again? Your videos are great! Thanks!

Fabulous. Great info. Thank you.

Super!!! Thanks! Subscribed!

Great stuff as always, thanks! With respect to search by content (your example 'cooking') - Can I teach this system? Can I tell it that a particular image was not a cooking image so next cooking search it will not show that image? Thanks!

I'll be trying the HELL out of that Lens feature. Thanks for the heads up.

Thank You!

Is there any way to manage faces and face recognition on Google Photos? My use cases would be: 1. Tell photos who this face in this chosen picture belongs to 2. Tell photos to exclude/ignore this face (or this photo) altogether 3. Tell photos if it has misidentified someone

WOW - great as always - can you attach the results of the "identification / lens" to the photo? Or is it only temporary? 2nd question: Can google photos find dups?

Thank you.

Very useful, thank you.

Great video, Steve!

Good Sir, you did quite well, again!

Any suggestions on a workflow to download a dozen years of Google Photos (over 50GB) and retiring the files in a usable format? I want to retain all of the metadata too (original dates etc).

Thank you for the great video. I agree organizing and locating photos is sometimes so involved. We take loads of travel photos. I have started naming my photos so I can search them on my phone fast. Working great. However on Google photos, I haven't been able to figure out how to search these. When you open a photo the name shows under the details section. Any thoughts. Thanks again

Good channel! I am currently going through the same ‘ordeal’ where my Maya (goldendoodle) pops up and that isn’t good right now 💔

Such a nice personality, I love your enthusiasm and interest in collecting memories. And yes I agree technology is going beyond our expectations, it is somehow scary sometimes when you think about it deeply!! Greetings from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

Please, please, please, everyone who watches this video go to Google feedback and ask them to add folders (or nested albums) to Google Photos. It’s ridiculous that we can’t organize our photos other than being in a root level album.

LOVE YOU videos-- what kind of phone do you have?

So, if I share photos with someone with a Google account. Does that eat into their google storage space? Or does that just allow them to view tagged images within my storage space?

If you want to show someone an imbedded photograph that may possibly be turned into a framed photograph for the wall can you do that in Google Photos? Does a viewer have a way to download the full size image that can be taken to the store to print? What I do now is use Google mail to imbed images with attached full size files.

Awesome content

My problem is this: I have Google everything . . . . But I can't figure out how to access Google Photos on a Windows PC. On my cell phone, it's all Google anyway, just attach photo to message and send. How do you do that in a Windows setting?? Thanks

Good stuff, but i have ONE question... How to you move pictures from one person to another? Feels like a logical thing but I haven't found a way to do this, as it assigns many faces to wrong people and should be easy to adjust so it learns more better faster!