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How To Abide By Your Shared Hangout Photograph Albums

By ahlikom
Update July 2016: Picasa Web Albums volition last retired August 1st. You tin uncovering your Hangout photograph albums inwards the new Learn more)

 Update July 2015: Google+ Photos volition last retired July 29th. You tin uncovering your Hangout photograph albums inwards Picasa Web Albums (picasaweb.google.com).

 Update Nov 2015: links to Google+ Photos straight off redirect to Google Photos (photos.google.com). There is no way to access Hangouts albums inwards Google Photos.

When yous share a photograph inwards a Google Hangout chat or take a photograph inwards a video call it is added to a shared photograph album that is visible to yous together with anyone else inwards the Hangout.

Hangouts photos are not displayed inwards the novel Google Photos (photos.google.com). However yous tin uncovering your Hangouts albums inwards Google+ Photo albums or Picasa Web Albums the Google Album Archive (get.google.com/albumarchive).


Find shared Hangouts albums inwards Google+ Photos

Note: Google+ Photos volition last retired starting July 29, 2015. You volition withal last able to uncovering your Hangout albums inwards Picasa Web Albums later that date. 

 As of Nov 19, 2015, links to Google+ Photos redirect to Google Photos, together with then the instructions below no longer work.

 As of August 2016, Hangouts albums tin exclusively last flora inwards the Google Album Archive (get.google.com/albumarchive)




If yous receive got a Google+ Profile your Hangouts albums volition last inwards your Google+ Albums. Because Hangouts album are shared, yous should meet the album inwards the photos of anyone who participated inwards your Hangout.

Find Hangouts albums inwards your ain Google+ Photo albums


 1. Sign inwards to Google+ together with opened upward Google+ Photos at plus.google.com/photos/highlights

 2. At the transcend of the page click More v

3. From the bill of fare select Albums

Hangouts chat albums are titled Hangout: [name or participants]
Video telephone telephone albums are titled Video telephone telephone on [date]


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The discover of photos shown is the discover yous shared, non the full discover inwards the album.

Find Hangouts albums inwards soul else's Google+ Photo albums

Note: Google+ Photos volition last retired starting July 29, 2015. You volition withal last able to uncovering your ain Hangout albums inwards Picasa Web Albums later that date. 
Note: every bit of Nov 19, 2015, Google+ Photos links redirect to Google Photos. You tin exclusively access your Hangouts albums inwards Picasa Web Albums. (picasaweb.google.com)

If soul else inwards a Hangout chat uploaded an prototype or soul else inwards a video telephone telephone took a picture, the shared Hangout album should last visible inwards their Google+ Photo albums. 

To sentiment soul else's albums, become to  plus.google.com/photos/[user ID]/albums
For example: On Google+ I am plus.google.com/+PeggyKTC or plus.google.com/103172072345300450419

 That way yous tin meet all my world albums together with all albums shared amongst yous at:
plus.google.com/photos/+PeggyKTC/albums or plus.google.com/photos/103172072345300450419/albums

 You won't meet whatever Hangouts albums at that spot unless we've been inwards a Hangout together together with I shared an image.

Find shared Hangouts albums inwards Picasa Web Albums

Note: every bit of August 1, 2016 Hangouts Albums tin exclusively last accessed inwards the Google Album Archive (get.google.com/albumarchive). The instructions below volition no longer work.
Hangouts albums are also displayed inwards Picasa Web Albums, whether yous receive got a Google+ Profile or not. Because Hangouts album are shared, yous should meet the album inwards the photos of anyone who participated inwards your Hangout.

Find Hangouts albums inwards your ain Picasa Web Albums albums

To access your ain Picasa Web Albums, open 
 picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos

You tin meet all your albums there, including your Hangouts albums

Hangouts chat albums are titled Hangout: [name or participants]
Video telephone telephone albums are titled Video telephone telephone on [date]
 


The discover of photos shown is the discover yous shared, non the full discover inwards the album.

Find Hangouts albums inwards soul else's Album Archive page

You tin sentiment soul else's albums past times going to:

get.google.com/albumarchive/[user ID]
For example:
My Google+ Profile URL is: plus.google.com/103172072345300450419

My world albums together with albums shared amongst yous are visible inwards my Google Album Archive:

 get.google.com/albumarchive/103172072345300450419

Note that yous must purpose the 21-digit user ID. Custom URLs volition non work.

Having problem finding your Hangouts photos?


 Check other Hangout participants albums

H5N1 Hangout album is visible to all participants inwards a Hangout chat or everyone invited to a video call. However, the Hangouts album volition exclusively last listed amid your ain photograph albums if yous contributed an prototype to it.

If yous cannot uncovering the album on your ain albums page, banking concern gibe the albums page for other Hangout participants.

Check whether the Hangout history was turned on

Photos shared when the Hangout history is turned off volition exclusively last temporarily visible inwards the shared album. After a curt catamenia of time, they'll last deleted from the album.

What yous tin create amongst your Hangouts albums

Once yous receive got accessed a Hangout album, yous can:
  • upload images - they should look inwards the Hangout chat 
  • delete images yous shared - yous cannot delete images shared past times other people
  • download images
  • share images 
Learn to a greater extent than inwards the Hangouts help center: