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Google Photos
photos.google.com › albums
My Google Photos albums
Home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.
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Google Photos
Home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.
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Google Support
support.google.com › photos › answer › 6128849
Create & edit photo albums - Computer - Google Photos Help
Open the album, then the photo you want to use. At the top right, click More Use as album cover. On your computer, open photos.google.com.
Discussions

Google Photos vs. Albums
Google Photos doesn't use a folder hierarchy. It uses tags that appear as albums, the same way Gmail uses tags that appear as labels/folders. This is not a flaw, but designed this way on purpose for greater flexibility. If you have a folder structure already organized, you can upload each folder via the Google Photos website, and it will give you the option at the bottom of the page after the upload counter, to add those items to an album. This will not upload duplicates, so you can even do it for items already backed up. But yes, there is no way to automatically do this from the app. More on reddit.com
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Google Photo Albums - Google Photos Community
Google Photos Help · Sign in · Google Help · Help Center · Community · Google Photos · Privacy Policy · Terms of Service · Submit feedback · Send feedback on... This help content & information · General Help Center experience · Next · Help Center · More on support.google.com
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Publicly shared google photos albums
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Question about albums?
The important thing to understand albums is that they are NOT folders, they are like labels, so they will still appear on the main Photos section. In fact the same pictures can be in several albums at the same time. Saying that, you could hide from the main page using Archive (in a near future Hidden) and these pictures would still appear in albums and in search results. But honestly, I don't see a reason to archive all of them just to have them only in albums, I prefer having all of them accessible and then use the search bar and albums to find something specific. More on reddit.com
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Google
google.com › intl › en_us › photos › about
Google Photos: Edit, Organize, Search, and Backup Your Photos
3 days ago - Automatically group similar photos together with Photo Stacks. Documents are sorted into albums, like screenshots, receipts, notes, and more.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/googlephotos › google photos vs. albums
r/googlephotos on Reddit: Google Photos vs. Albums
May 20, 2024 -

There is an awful flaw in the way Google Photos backs up photos from my Samsung phone which is driving me crazy.

The app seems to completely ignore all the subfolders in DCIM folder and just back up everything all bundled up together in one big timeline. There is also no functionality to exclude any of the subfolders from backing up and freeing up space (you can include/exclude device folders, but that's another thing).

I had some photos organized into several albums (subfolders in DCIM) and the 'Free up space' thing completelly messed them up (deleted most of the older photos and videos) and since the app did not replicate the album/folder hierarchy on the Google Photos servers, it effectively destroyed all my work and I would need to invest hours and hours to recreate those albums by going through the timeline, searching for specific photos and creating new albums from scratch.

This is just unnaceptable and I can't believe how one of the biggest tech corporations in the world can make such a flawed, messed up app.

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Google Play
play.google.com › store › apps › details
Google Photos - Apps on Google Play
1 month ago - • SEARCH MADE SIMPLE: Your photos are easily searchable in a natural, descriptive way, like “Alice and me laughing,” “Kayaking on a lake surrounded by mountains” or “Emma painting in the backyard.” • EASY ORGANIZATION: Google Photos helps declutter your gallery by automatically organizing duplicates and similar photos into photo stacks. It also offers smart, intuitive folders for screenshots, documents, custom albums and daily camera roll organization, making your gallery feel orderly and personalized.
Rating: 4.4 ​ - ​ 53.5M votes
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Google Support
support.google.com › photos › answer › 6128849
Create & edit photo albums - Android - Google Photos Help
On your Android device, open the Google Photos app . Sign in to your Google Account. At the top right, tap Add Album .
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Google
developers.google.com › google photos apis › manage albums
Manage albums | Google Photos APIs | Google for Developers
In Google Photos, albums are used to organize photos and media items, with each item able to belong to multiple albums.
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Google Support
support.google.com › photos › thread › 250663959 › google-photo-albums
Google Photo Albums - Google Photos Community
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Quora
quora.com › How-can-I-get-a-list-of-albums-in-Google-Photos
How to get a list of albums in Google Photos - Quora
You can get a list of albums in Google Photos in three practical ways: using the Google Photos web interface, the Google Photos mobile app, or the Google Photos API (programmatic).
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9to5Google
9to5google.com › home › google photos now shows what albums images & videos are in
Google Photos now shows what Albums images & videos are in
December 20, 2024 - Upon swiping on a fullscreen image or video, Google Photos on Android now shows an “Albums” section that lists where you have cataloged it. It appears below People & pets and before Details.
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Google
developers.google.com › google photos apis › list app-created media items and albums
List app-created media items and albums | Google Photos APIs | Google for Developers
August 28, 2025 - The Google Photos Library API allows you to access and list media items created by your application, including photos and videos. You can list media items from specific app-created albums or the entire app-created library, applying filters (date, ...
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/googlephotos › question about albums?
r/googlephotos on Reddit: Question about albums?
August 18, 2022 -

I've got nearly a decade worth of cell phone pics in my Google Photos and am trying to sort them by album so they're more organized. However I notice when I move a photo to an album, it doesn't actually move the photo.... it just has it under the general "photos" section and then also in the album. If I move it and then try to delete it from "photos", it wants to delete it from both photos and the album I have it saved in. Is there a way to remove the photo from the general "photos" section and have it only in the album I'm putting it in??

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Stack Exchange
webapps.stackexchange.com › questions › 168273 › in-google-photos-how-can-i-get-a-list-of-all-my-album-names-and-urls-that-i-can
In google photos how can I get a list of all my album names and URLs that I can paste into google sheets or excel - Web Applications Stack Exchange
With 800 odd albums this takes a long while. Does any know how to get back all the albums at once? Executed on the page https://photos.google.com/albums, this script returns a string that can be copy-pasted to a Google Sheet, creating a table of names and URLs.