How to create an automatic family album in Google Photos in 4 steps

Have you ever wondered how to have an automatic family album where you don't have to worry about updates? Well, know that it is possible to do this through the Google Photos. All you need to do is a simple programming and that's it, your automatic family album will be created. Are you a pet father, mother or uncle? No problem, our beloved kitties can also have an album just with their clicks.

As it is a feature available for smartphones Android e iOS, you will just have to connect to the internet to get everything done. As you know, the application of Google Photos already has features that allow the identification of different faces. And that's how you can create your automatic family album. Check it out right now!

How does Google Photos work?

Being an application that can be used as a photo gallery of smartphones, Google Photos can help you have a virtual library of images, where everything is cataloged the way you want. Re-released as a replacement for Picasa on May 28, 2015, during the company's famous conference, the Google I/O, the main objective of this app is for it to be:

• A home for all your photos and videos;
• A support to help organize and remember life moments;
• A place to make sharing easy and also save what matters.

However, even before launching its own photo gallery application, the company already indicated that it would go to this market at some point, with the Google+ — social network developed to fight head-on Facebook e Twitter — providing this functionality to your users. Remember the moment when Aravind Krishnaswamy, director of engineering at Google Photos, made the official announcement of the app:

Going back to the present day, we can say that the launch was a success. Until the end of this article, the Google Photos had already been installed more than 39 million times by the Play Store. Although it was developed by the company that created the Android, the functionality is also available on devices Apple , through App Store.

Manufacturers of smartphones who choose to launch their models with the “neutral” version (without apps with that brand) of Android also end up choosing to use Google Photos like a native gallery.

Creating your automatic family album in 4 steps

For you to be able to create your automatic family album with the support of Google Photos, first of all, of course, install the application on your cell phone. As we said, despite being created by the Android developer, it is also possible to program on Apple devices. If you don't have Google Photos installed, do it right now:

Next, you have to access the “Photo Library” section of the app. You will need to click on the “New Album” option to finally be able to create your automatic family album. See the photo below:

Then, it's time to make a selection of the people who will enter your automatic album. As some photos are saved on your cell phone, Google Photos is able to identify some faces and its job is to indicate the images with which people should be automatically inserted in the album.

Set a title and, after clicking on “People and Pets”, just make the selection. With that, just click on “Confirm” in the right corner of the screen. Check out:

Then your auto album is ready! An interesting point is that you will no longer need to upload manual for each of the photos. That's because the Google Photos system will work in the background so that your family album is always organized. It's like artificial intelligence works for you!

Manual photo backup? Forget it

The main concept of Google Photos is simply to make it so that you no longer have to carry out the backup photo and video professional of a long day of adventures. So, so that nothing is lost and is always sent to the cloud from your Google account, you need to activate the backup automatic Google Photos.

To do this schedule, open the Google Photos app and then go to the library. You will find a section called “Photos on device”, with several folders. Look:

Now, when you click on one of the folders, just check the option “Backup and Sync” so the files are uploaded to your cloud. It is important to mention that, by doing this, all the photos inside that folder will start being sent to your Google cloud. So be careful not to lose your entire data plan or end up sending an undue click to the digital file.

Another information is that the user can mark so that the internet usage of his cell phone (mobile data) is not used, through this way:

• Backup and synchronization;
• Use of mobile data;

Being on a new screen, just check so that mobile data is not consumed by clicking on “Do not use data”. Prefer to use your plan's internet just for uploading photos to the Google cloud? You can set a daily limit, which can also be unlimited. It's up to you. An important detail is that, after the photos have been uploaded to the cloud, you can delete the original file from your cell phone and thus gain more memory for new records.

Feature is available for all Android and iOS smartphones

If you'd like to have an automatic family album that doesn't need to be manually uploaded, it's time to install Google Photos. That way, your only job will be to do the programming in the application itself. As you can imagine, you will need a Google account to connect to the app. But nowadays, who doesn't have at least one gmail?

So, before all the parties and get-togethers even begin, it's time to put together your automatic family album so you only have to connect to a network. Wi-Fi to have the images of the people you love at hand.

Also, a really cool feature is that the artificial intelligence assembles small videos of all the records captured in a day. So download the app right now and enjoy all the benefits!

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Sources: Google e Android Central