
Google Photos is a popular photo storage and sharing service. It allows you to upload photos and videos from your device and access them from anywhere. One of the handy features of Google Photos is that it automatically organizes your media into albums based on date, location, people, and subjects.
When you open the Google Photos app or visit photos.google.com, you will see these auto-generated albums in the Albums tab with an automatically selected cover photo. However, you may want to customize which photo shows up as the album cover. Read on to find out how to change the Google Photos album cover on both mobile and desktop.
Before we learn how to change the album cover photo, ensure that:
Follow these steps to change the album cover photo for any album on the Google Photos app for iPhone, iPad, or Android:
The selected photo is now set as the new album cover. You can repeat these steps at any time to choose a different cover photo.
The process to change the album cover image on the desktop is very similar:
The steps are straightforward and only take a few seconds to complete. Changing the cover photo periodically can help keep your Google Photos albums fresh.
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Changing the album cover thumbnail is an easy way to spruce up your Google Photos album views. With just a couple of taps on mobile or clicks on desktop, you can set any photo in an album as its cover.
Periodically updating the album covers keeps your library fresh and organized. Just be sure to pick representative photos that capture the essence of the album when changing covers. With this knowledge, you can always have Google Photos albums with tailored cover images that make your photo archives appear well maintained.
No, unfortunately Google Photos does not allow changing the album cover of multiple albums together. The change has to be done one album at a time.
No, modifying the album cover only changes the thumbnail image displayed. The photos and videos contained in the album remain unchanged.
The old cover photo is not deleted or modified. It simply goes back to its normal place in the album grid after you pick a new image as the cover.
As the previous cover photo is still a part of the album, you can always select it again as the cover if you want to revert to an old cover.
No, there is no limit imposed by Google Photos on how many times you can change the cover photo of an album. You can modify it as often as you like.
The native Google Photos platform does not provide the ability to add text, filters, or other customizations to album covers currently. You will need to use a graphics editor to modify the photo externally before uploading.
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