Google Photos tip: Finding photos from friends

Actually giving friends photos (vs. merely sharing them in a hard-to-download/keep manner) is one of my favorite things about Google Photos. When you share a link to one or more images or videos, your recipient can simply click the little “cloud download” icon to add the content to her library. (Try it now with some aircraft/missile photos I shot Monday evening.)

The slightly frustrating thing is that if the images you’re given weren’t recently captured, it can be hard to find them in your library because they’re sorted according to capture date. Fortunately you can easily show recent files: bookmark this link or just click the search bar, then click the “Recently added” tile at the bottom. And boom, whatever files you just added from your friend will now show up at the top of the list.

2 thoughts on “Google Photos tip: Finding photos from friends

  1. Sometimes I would very much like to share images online, but I do not want the images being downloaded and repurposed, or printed.

    As it stands now, I do not share images for this very reason.

  2. Sometimes I would very much like to share images online, but I do not want the images being downloaded and repurposed, or printed.

    As it stands now, I do not share images for this very reason.

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