When your Google Nest Hub or Google Nest Hub Max display isn't in use, it can quietly keep you entertained. You can add your favorite photos to Google Photos and display them in your Google Nest Photo Frame.
Alternatively, you can choose an existing art gallery or select from a variety of traditional and abstract clocks to show while your device is idle. You can also get notifications on your display about upcoming events, commute, reminders, flights and packages.
Set up Photo Frame on your Google Nest display
Use the Google Home app
- Open the Google Home app
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- Tap Favorites
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- Tap and hold your device's tile.
- Tap Settings
Photo Frame adjust the settings you want.
Use your Nest display screen
- From the bottom of your Nest display screen, swipe up.
- Tap Settings .
- Tap Photo Frame adjust the settings you want.
If you have Voice Match enabled, you can also say "Hey Google, change Photo Frame" to open Photo Frame settings on your Nest display.
Change photos on your Nest display
If you have a Google Photos account, you can enjoy your personal photos on your Nest display.
You can add or remove albums with the Home app or your Nest display.
Home app:
- Open the Home app
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- Tap Favorites or Devices ..
- Tap and hold your device's tile.
- Tap Settings Photo Frame Google Photos.
- Select albums to add and deselect albums to remove.
Nest display:
- Say "Hey Google, change Photo Frame."
- Tap Google Photos.
- Select albums to add and deselect albums to remove.
Available albums include auto-selected albums like "Recent highlights," your private Google Photos albums, and your shared albums that have a name.
When a photo is on your Nest display screen, you can do the following:
- To go to the next photo, swipe left or say "Hey Google, next photo."
- To go to the previous photo, swipe right or say "Hey Google, previous photo."
- To remove the photo, say "Hey Google, remove this photo," and follow the prompts. The photo should now be archived in Google Photos.
- To mark a photo as favorite, say "Hey Google, favorite this photo," or touch and hold the photo on the screen tap Favorites
. This photo should now appear in your Favorites album.
Voice interaction with photos is available in most Google Assistant languages that work on your Nest display.
Hide Photos
If you don't want a photo to appear on your Nest display, move it to archive in Google Photos.
To hide photos with a specific person's face, remove their face group in Google Photos.
Archived photos and photos with hidden faces remain in any albums they were already added to. You might need to disable the albums or manually delete the photos from them.
Other Photo Frame settings
This setting shows curated images and artwork. You can choose from the following art categories:
| Category |
Source |
| Featured photos |
Getty images and more |
| Fine art |
Google Arts and Culture |
| Earth and space |
NASA and Google Earth |
| Street art |
Google Arts and Culture |
Choose from a variety of clock faces.
Try out new sources and content.
The available experimental options might change or become unavailable without prior notice.
More settings
Banner notifications proactively tell you about your upcoming events and tasks. This feature is only available in the US.
- To receive banner notifications on your display, turn on the following settings:
- To dismiss a notification when it's on your display, swipe up the banner.
- To turn off banner notifications, open Photo Frame settings for your display, then set "Banner notifications" to Hide.
If you have more than one Google Account linked to your Nest display, you need to turn off banner notifications for each account.
To show the air quality index (AQI) when it's available in your area, select Show.
To let your Nest display show the time in Photo Frame, select Show.
By default, your photos display information like album name, photo date, photo location and more. To hide this information, set "Personal photo data" to Hide.
Personal photo data is only available in the US.
To let portrait photos appear in your Google Photos slideshow, select Show or Show pairs.
- Show: One portrait photo appears on your Nest display screen.
- Show pairs: A pair of related photos appear side-by-side. Google Photos uses a number of signals to relate photos, including if they have the same person in them (in geographic regions where Face Groups are available), or if they were taken close together in time or location.
Depending on the album, Google Photos may curate the photos that it selects for your slideshow:
- Live Albums only: Google Photos tries to select the best photos from these albums.
- All albums: Google Photos tries to remove photos with poor image quality or near duplicates.
- To turn off curation for these albums, set "Personal photo curation" to Live albums only.
- Your Favorites: Google Photos doesn't curate these photos.
Art and photo slideshows use bandwidth to download images to your Nest display. To help save bandwidth, choose a slower slideshow speed.
To show the Weather Frog in addition to your photos, select Show.
To get recommended content, select Show.
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