Keep a person or date out of Google Photos memories

Google Photos lets you hide a face or date from the featured memories carousel above the Photos view. The choice matters if a day has a group photo with someone you want to avoid and other photos you would still like to see.

Show less stops memories about that person, but the group photo may still appear. Blocked excludes them even from group photos. Hide dates excludes every photo taken on that date from the carousel, including the photos you wanted to keep seeing. These settings do not delete library photos or apply to Moments. Google explains the scope in its Android featured memories guide.

On Android, open Google Photos and tap your profile photo or initial, then Photos settings, Preferences, Memories, and Hide faces. Under Show less or Blocked, tap Select faces, choose the face, and tap Done. To hide a day, return to Memories, open Hide dates, and add the date. To undo either choice, open Hide faces or Hide dates and tap Remove beside the face or date.

On a computer, you can unhide a face at photos.google.com under Settings, Memories, Hide faces, and Remove. Google’s Face Groups guide also says a blocked face disappears from People & pets until you unhide it. Face hiding may take time, may miss some photos, and can make some memories containing content stored on your device unavailable.