Can I Merge Albums on Google Photos on Android? Combining Albums

Combine two or more albums on Google Photos

Written by Darlene Antonelli, MA

Last Updated: February 21, 2025 Fact Checked

Are pictures from your one event scattered throughout different albums on Google Photos? Although there is no built-in feature to merge albums on Google Photos, you can use your Android to select photos in one album and add them to another. This wikiHow article teaches you a workaround that will allow you to merge photos from one Google Photos album into another on an Android phone or tablet.

Quick Steps

Open your Google Photos library.
Tap the first album.
Tap the three-dots icon > Select.
Select the photos you want to merge.
Tap +.
Select the second album.

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It’s the multicolored pinwheel icon labeled “Photos” that’s usually in the app drawer. You may also find it on the home screen.^{[1]
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It’s the fourth icon at the bottom of the screen and looks like a stack of books.

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Tap the first album you want to merge. Since you're doing this on an Android, you might want to pick the album with the least amount of pictures that you want to merge to another album because you have to tap to select the separate images.^{[2]
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- If you have lots of pictures to merge, you'll want to use a computer.
This three-dot menu icon is in the top-right corner of the screen.
It's usually the second item in the drop-down menu.
Tapping a photo will select it and you'll see a blue checkmark in the top left corner of each selected thumbnail.^{[3]
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This plus sign is near the top-right corner of the screen and will prompt another menu of your existing albums to slide up from the bottom of your screen.^{[4]
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Tap the second album. It'll be under the "All Albums" header and the selected photos will be merged into this album.
- You can also create media like a movie, animation, a shared album, a new album, or a collage using the selected images.
- After you've added the pictures from one album to another, you'll be able to delete the original album.

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What if I have thousands of photos and don't want to tap each photo I want to merge?

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Use a desktop or laptop for that. It lets you select all of them by pressing Shift and clicking on the first and last photo.

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