How to block a person in Google Photos

If you don't want someone to follow your Google Photos album, you can follow these steps to block that person from your album.

For some personal reasons, you decide to remove someone from the Google Photos album. Google allows you to block / unblock people you have invited to view albums easily.

Note, when you block someone on Google Photos, it means that he will be blocked on some other Google services, like Google+.

How to block a person in Google Photos

Things you need to know:

When you block a person on Google Photos, that person will not be able to view your photos, videos, comments. But at the same time you cannot view their photos, videos or comments.

1. In case you are an album owner and you block a collaborator, the content they add will be deleted.
2. When you block the owner of the album, all the content you have added will be deleted.
3. When you remove someone from an album that you do not own, you and the blocked person will not be able to see each other's content.

Step 1. Open the Google Photos app on your phone. In this article, we made on iPhone.

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Step 2. Select the Album tab and select the album you want to block someone.

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Step 3. Click More in the top right corner and select Sharing options .

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Step 4. Click the dot (.) next to the name of the person you want to block. Finally choose Block someone .

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How to see who you've blocked in Google Photos

You can check all the people you have blocked. However, you need to use a web browser to do that.

Step 1. Open the web browser on your computer.

Step 2. Go to https://myaccount.google.com/blocklist. Here you will see a list of people you have blocked.

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How to unblock someone in Google Photos

Step 1. Open the web browser on your computer and go to https://myaccount.google.com/blocklist.

Step 2. Next, click the 'X' button next to the account you want to unblock.

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See more:

1. Block strangers to contact you on Facebook
2. How to know someone blocked you on Facebook Messenger?
3. How to block any user on Instagram?