

Since we cannot assign a keyword "Dog" to all photos of a dog, Photos is trying to identify all dogs in the photos and assigns the category "Dog". We have no way to create smart albums, so Photos is trying to help us by analyzing the photos and structuring them thematically for us. It is meant to make it easy to structure the Photos library automatically, because Photos on iOS devices has no tools at all to assign metadata to our photos - we cannot assign titles, descriptions, keywords or other tags, like we could in iPhoto iOs. It is at the heart of the way how Photos has been designed. In my opinion getting all of my photos scanned in the background is an invasion of privacy. To find these images again, tap Albums and then Hidden.As far as I can tell there is no way to turn off memories. This stops an image from showing up in your memories, but it also means it disappears from the main Library tab, from the Albums view, and from search results. Tap Confirm to finish.Īnother option is to hide a photo by browsing to it in Photos, tapping the share button (bottom left), and choosing Hide. Choose Never Feature This Person and images of them won’t show up at all in your memories. If you pick Feature This Person Less, the app will block all individual images of a person from memories, but they might still appear in group shots. Select the person you want to exclude from your memories, tap the three dots, and one of two options. This is where you’ll see the people Apple Photos has automatically identified in your library. To preemptively rule out particular photos from appearing in memories, tap Albums and then People. To hide a photo that has already found its way into a memory, pause the memory when you see the image, tap the three dots, and choose Hide From Memory. As well as browsing through the collages created by the app, you can make your own: Tap the three dots (top right) on any album, month, or day screen, then choose Play Memory Movie. In the iPhone’s Apple Photo, the Memories section shows up at the top of the For You tab. If you haven’t set it up already, Google Photos will prompt you to do that before it moves the image. To send a picture to the locked folder, select it in the app, tap the three dots in the top right corner, then choose Move to Locked Folder. Google Photos also has a special locked folder for sensitive images you don’t want showing up anywhere else. You can add as many as you like, and you can use this feature on its own or in tandem with the ability to hide people and pets. On the Memories screen, you can also pick Hide dates, allowing you to set specific date ranges that you don’t want to see show up. Google Photos will also hide these photos from search, and they won’t show up as options when you make your own collages and animations.

You’ll see a grid of all the people and pets Google Photos has detected in your library-tap on any of them to hide all their images from your recaps. There, go to Memories and select Hide people and pets. To tell Google Photos about people or pets you don’t want in your memories, tap your profile picture (top right), then choose Photos settings. Choose the pictures you want to add by tapping Library and Utilities. Unfortunately, there’s no way to remove a photo that’s already made its way into a memory, but if you want a more curated throwback, you can build your own collages and animations.

When Google Photos thinks it’s got an interesting collection of older images to show you, you’ll find them at the top of the Photos tab.
