A safe home
for life’s memories.

Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organised and easy to share. We invest in advanced security infrastructure and easy-to-use privacy controls so that you can safely store and share your memories.

Google Photos
All the ways that Google Photos helps to keep your memories safe.
Keeping your memories safe
We operate one of the most advanced security infrastructures, with everything from custom-designed data centres to transcontinental fibre-optic cables that are continuously monitored to help keep your memories safe.

Secure storage

Google services are continuously protected by the world’s most advanced security infrastructure. This built-in security detects and helps prevent online threats, so you can be confident your personal information is secure.

Treating data responsibly
People interact with their photos across different apps and devices. As we work to make it easier for you to do more with the photos that you take, these moments of convenience should extend beyond the Google Photos app and web experience in a responsible way.

Face grouping

Face grouping automatically groups similar faces and sorts them for you making it easy to search and manage your photos. Face groups and labels are only visible to you. You control whether face grouping is on or off, and if you turn it off, face groups will be deleted from your account. We do not make general purpose facial recognition technology commercially available.

Putting you in control
Data makes Google Photos more helpful and relevant, but we want to help put you in control of your experience. We've built easy-to-use tools into our product that put you in control and let you choose the settings that are right for you.

Selective backup

You can choose to back up your photos and videos to Google Photos or selectively back up only the photos that you want stored to your Google Account.

Secure sharing
Whether it’s a single photo or an entire album, you control who you share your memories with. Easy and secure controls allow you to share your content with specific people or you can use a shareable link to share it more broadly.

Album sharing

When you share an album, the default option will be to share with a specific person or people via their Google Account. This gives you more control over who is added to the album. You still have the option to share via a link, which makes it easy to share photos with people who don't use Google Photos or have a Google Account. You can update the sharing settings of your albums at any time and control who has access to each album.

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