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3 Ways to Stop Someone from Accessing a Shared Album on Google Photos

There are multiple ways to stop someone specifically from accessing your memories stored in a Google Photos Album. We have discussed the detailed steps of each of them.

1. Remove Someone from Google Photos Album

One of the easiest ways to stop someone from accessing your photos in a Google Photos Album is to remove them from the album.

Open Google Photos on your Phone, and open the sharing album from Library TabSelect the album you want to remove someone from, and Open it.Tap on the participants’ profile pictureClick on the 3 dots next to the person’s nameTap on Remove person

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2. Block Someone from Google Photos Album

While removing a person from Google Photos Album is an easy way, but the said person can again join the album if someone again invites them or they have the album link. In order to stop that person from joining again and again, you can block them.

Open Google Photos on your Phone, and open the sharing album from Library TabSelect the album you want to remove someone from, and Open it.Tap on the participants’ profile pictureClick on the 3 dots next to the person’s nameTap on Block person

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If you don’t want to remove or block someone from the Google Photos Album, but still want to stop them from accessing your photos or memories, then you can simply disable the link to join the album so that only a limited number of people can access the album and more members can’t join via the link.

Go to the same participants’ list for the albumClick on the toggle of link sharingTap on the Delete link button

Bonus: Delete the Album and Reshare it with the required people Only

The last option is to delete the Google Photos Album entirely. This will delete all the photos and videos from the album so no one can access them, but don’t worry your photos and videos will still be available in your Google Photos app account. You can again create an album of it and share it with only selected people. In order to delete the album follow these steps:

Go to the album you want to deleteTap on three dots (top right)Click on Delete Album.

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