Adding and Removing Photos from Albums

Develop your own Album “system.”

When I’m browsing my photos and I see one that is particularly good, I want to add it to an appropriate album. We are traveling and taking pictures all the time, so I’ve developed a system where I make an album for each month. I name it starting with 4 digits for the year, then a dash and 2 digits for the month. That makes them easy to search. I start an album at the beginning of the month and add photos as I go. If I want to see my best photos from July 2018, I just search for 2018-07. I also make albums for specific events.

1. Open the photo on my phone
2. Tap the 3-dot menu in the upper right
3. Choose Add to Album
4. Scroll down the list and tap the appropriate album (note: once you have a lot of albums, you may need to scroll a ways. Albums are in date order by the most recent photo in the album. Once you’ve added one photo, that album will show up at the top as a Recent album the next time.)

To remove a photo from an album

1. Select or open the photo and tap the 3-dot menu in upper right
2. Choose Remove from Album
3.  When prompted to confirm, tap “Remove”

If you change your mind, you can always find that photo in your Google Photos library and add it back. 

Albums are our one organizing tool