Photos and albums

Photos is the household’s shared photo tab: one private place for the beach day, the birthday cake and the first tomatoes from the garden, where everyone in the home can see them.

Open Photos and upload from your phone or your computer. You can pick several at once, and each one shows its progress as it goes up. Kinnomy reads the date each photo was taken, so it lands in the right place in time.

Give a photo a caption, tag the people in it and add a place if you like. Everyone in the household with access to Photos can add their own photos. Changing or deleting someone else’s photo or album needs an owner or an adult.

• Make an album for a trip, a birthday or a season, with a short description.
• Pick a cover photo, and sort by the date taken or the date added.
• Play a slideshow of the album.

Mark a photo as a favorite, react with love, haha, wow, yay or like, and comment on it. Comments work like the comment thread on any item in Talk.

Open a person to see every photo they are tagged in, in one place.

Home shows photos taken on this day in past years. It is one of the automations, it is on every plan, and it can be switched off in the household settings.

On Household and Household+, send an album link to grandparents, cousins or friends. They do not need an account.

• Choose how many days the link lasts, from 1 to 90, and whether they can download the photos.
• The link is shown once. Copy it and send it to the people it is for.
• They see only that album: nothing else in your household.
• Turn the link off at any time. Making a new link turns the old one off.

Household and Household+ can add short videos to Photos. Videos are short clips only, and the app shows you the size limit before you upload.

• Photos are stored privately, like documents. There is never a public link, and every photo checks that you are allowed to see it. Album links are the one way to share, and only when you make one.
• Photos are resized to save space, and location data is removed from the resized copies Kinnomy makes.
• If the owner turns on Keep original photos, each original is also kept exactly as uploaded, including any location your phone saved in it. Videos, and HEIC photos the server cannot convert, are always kept exactly as uploaded too. If that matters to you, turn off location in your phone’s camera settings.
• Documents and photos share one storage allowance: 500 MB on Free, 5 GB on Household and 25 GB on Household+. Deleting a photo frees its space.

Some phone photo formats cannot be previewed. Those show “Preview not available” with a download link.

Photos is for sharing family moments, not a full photo backup. Keep your originals somewhere else too. Like the rest of Kinnomy, photos are private but not end-to-end encrypted.

Ask “Show photos from the beach” or “On this day” and the Brain finds them by caption, album, place or person. It only sees the photos you are allowed to see.