How to use Google Photos Partner Sharing

Google Photos is more than just a cloud backup service for your pictures and videos — it’s also a smart way to stay connected with the people who matter most.

One of its most useful features is Partner Sharing, which lets you automatically share photos with a trusted person without manually sending albums or images every time.

Whether you want to keep family memories in sync, instantly share photos of your kids, or create a shared digital scrapbook with your partner, this feature makes the process effortless.

What is Partner Sharing?

Partner Sharing allows you to automatically share your photo library — or selected photos — with another person who has a Google Account. Once enabled, your chosen photos are shared as soon as they are backed up to Google Photos.

You can choose to share: Your entire photo library, Photos from a specific date onward, Photos featuring certain people

Your partner can also choose to share their photos back with you after accepting the invitation.

Things to note:

• Any edits, deletions, or locked folder transfers you make to your copy of a photo won’t affect copies already saved by your partner.
• Your partner will receive shared photos automatically once they’re backed up.
• Photos from other Android apps may not be shared by default.
• Edited photos on your device can still be shared.

Step to share:

• Open Google Photos
• Open Settings
• Click the Settings icon.
• Find the Sharing section.
• Click ‘Expand’ next to it.
• Select partner sharing.
• Choose What You Want to Share

Select a starting date:

• Off : Share all photos in your library.
• Since a specific date, only share photos taken after the selected date.

Choose which photos to share

• All photos
• Photos of certain people using Google Photos face groups
• If you choose face groups, only photos matching those selected people will be shared automatically.

Invite your partner

• Enter or select the email address of the person you want to share with.
• The person must have a Google account.
• Click Next.
• If everything looks correct, click "Send invitation."
• Once your partner accepts, the sharing connection becomes active.
• If you also want access to your partner’s library, ask them to enable Partner Sharing with your account after they accept your invitation.
• This creates a two-way sharing setup where both libraries stay updated automatically.

However, if you want to share with a different person, you’ll first need to stop sharing with your current partner before setting up a new connection.