Q&A for How to Organize Photos in Google Photos

You can start saving them on your mobile device, or if storage space is limited, use your laptop or computer. Investing in an external hard drive for additional backup and storage capacity is another great approach. Lastly, you can use photo cloud services that offer automatic syncing capabilities, which can provide convenient access to your photos across multiple devices.

You can create a shared album for others to add photos to. In the mobile app, go to the "Sharing" tab and tap "Create shared album". Then, you'll be able to invite people to the album, allowing them to view and add photos.

There isn't a feature to split an album directly, but you can make a new album and add photos from the first album. When making the new album, search for photos by the first album's name. Then, select the photos you want to place in the second album. You'll need to delete the photos in the first album after creating the second album.

To group your photos by month, go to the "Photos" tab in the Google Photos app. Then, press the screen with two fingers and pinch them toward each other. This will "zoom out" the photo list into grouping by month.

Yes, but if you are using iOS (on an iPad, iPhone, etc.), you can recover the photos from the Recently Deleted album.

You save the images all individually or backup your gallery and should go through on it's own there.

Yes. As long as the location has been added to the photos, you can search by location. However, this will require you to manually add the photos to the album.

You could 'favourite' the photo you last went from, or just keep it open so that when you go back to it you will be ready to continue.

No, your photo will still be listed with "all photos" as well. If you don't want to to be, you can archive it, as it will still remain in the desired album.

Yes, you can. Just back up your photo gallery, then you share the phone album into the app Google Photos.

At the top of Google Photos is a picture to filter by letters A-Z. You can sort it by that.

Duplicates are sometimes best in case of something happens to the master photo. You can make a master photo album and delete the copies.

You need to pre-select your photos to be placed into a new folder by the name you give it and to "move" those pre-selected files to that folder. Some pictures might be too large to fit into such file folders so you might have to edited those ones down to be less in MB.

Go on the web version and add a location to the photo. You can do this by clicking on the photo you wish to add a location to, select "Where was this taken?" and searching for the correct location.

Yes, you can do this on the web version. Simply click on the photo you want to know about, then click on the information and it should list all the albums it is in.

Using the sort options provided by Google does not work now. The photos are sorted incorrectly no matter you choose 'oldest' or 'newest'. It ignores the 'date taken' on some photos. This happens more often recently. Previously there was no need to use this option and photos uploaded from PC were shown newest first on 'Photos' and became oldest first in 'Albums'. Not anymore, they are out of order now! You have to use 'custom' option to drag photos yourself in your album to put them to the right order. There is no option to sort by 'file name'.

You cannot create sub albums. Google does not let us have that simple and basic feature. It still lives in the era when data was less, so that it could be organized using just one layer of folders and there was no need of sub folders.