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At Google they are concerned about keeping the family together. Or, at least, for making sure that the entire family group shares content with each other. Thus, in addition to creating the Family Group on Google Play so that games, applications, books and music remain in a common library accessible to all, other applications have improved with this concept. One of them is Google Photos, the gallery where it is now much easier to share photos and videos with the people closest to you
Create a family group
Google has developed this new function for different applications, such as the Google Keep notes tool or its calendar solution. Of course, for all this to work the first thing is to create a Family Group. An account in which an administrator provides bank details so that the whole family can benefit from it and make purchases without adding new payment methods. Also, doing so gives you access to a common library
To do this, you just have to go to the Google Play Store and display the left menu. In it you have to click on the Account section, where the user data is. This new menu has a section called Family, where you can manage the group creation process. You just have to register as an administrator of one of these groups and add the accounts of the participants.
Google does not monitor kinship, so these groups, although with family aspirations, can be created among friends. Just add different email accounts Of course, with a limit of 5 new members. Each of them receives a notification email to confirm their membership in the family group. And ready.
Quickly share photos and videos
Now that you have a family group, the accounts are related in Google Photos as well. This results in the appearance of FamilyGroup as the default contact with which to share photos and videos. All this in a much faster way than doing it contact by contact. And without the need to create your own album with each event.
Just select a photo or video. Of course, this process can also be done collectively, by selecting a nice collection of items from the Photos tab.Then click on the share icon in the upper right corner to display the contacts window.
It is here, next to the different applications and direct contacts, that FamilyGroup appears by default. In this way, and by clicking only once on this contact, Google Photos is in charge of sending the photos and videos to everyone. A unified and simplified process that avoids unnecessary repetition or the creation of a common album with everything that is shared.
independent albums
This process has nothing to do with creating shared albums. Shared albums allow a multitude of users to view the same collection of photos and videos. And they can even actively participate in them by adding new items or comments.As long as they have administrator permissions to do so.
For its part, this way of sharing photos and videos does not create new albums. Just send the items to each user in the Family Group directly Thus, they remain independently in the Photos tab, and not as shared albums in each case .
Now this feature is still reaching out to different Android users. So it is possible that the Family Group contact takes a few weeks to appear.
