How to change the cover of a person album in Google Photos

Little by little, Google Photos is becoming the dream photo album for many. By the laziest, generally. And it is that its automation of functions helps enormously to ensure that everything is where it should and as it should. That is, group photos into albums based on places, automatically collect our trips and photos from all folders, or even, more recently, create albums based on people. Something that helps to see all the photos that we have in our gallery in which each other appears.

Well, there is still room for improvement. The good thing is that features are being added like change the cover photos of these albums of people so we don't see the worst portrait of a person every time we go through this section. Here we'll explain to you how to do it.

Step by Step

The first thing you should do is make sure that you have this functionality on your mobile. We refer to albums per person. Update Google Photos to the latest version to make sure.

1. Then enter the Google Photos app and jump to the Albums tab. Here you will see, in the carousel at the top, automatic album suggestions, which should include People.
2. When you sign in you can walk through the grid of people that populate the photos in your gallery. Search and enter the one you want to modify.
3. This will show you all the photos in which Google Photos thinks that face appears. The question is to change the cover photo if we believe that it is not representative or it is not the best snapshot. Now all that remains is to click on the three points in the upper right corner to display the menu and choose the option Change main photo…
4. This will redisplay all recognized photos with that face on. That way we'll just have to choose another portrait that more closely matches the idea of ​​that album.

At this time It is not possible to edit these automatic albums, although Google Photos is already working on this feature.We will only be able to change the cover image between the photos in the album itself, but without being able to add other new snapshots, avoid duplicate albums or manually label. Again, these are features that are already being tested in advanced versions of Google Photos, but at the moment it is not the ideal automatic album that we all dream of. It's an interesting first step though.