How to remove or hide a guest photo

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Someone will upload a blurry floor shot, a duplicate burst, or a photo you’d rather not keep. You have two tools: delete (permanent, gone for everyone) and hide (guests stop seeing it, you keep it). Knowing which to reach for saves you from deleting something you’ll want later.

Plan: All plans · Where: Photos & video (under “Memories”)

Before you start

  • Deleting is permanent; there is no trash folder or undo.
  • If you only want the gallery out of guests’ sight, hide it instead of deleting (step 4).

Steps

  1. Open Photos & video. In the sidebar, click Photos & video (under “Memories”) and select the album the photo is in.

  2. Delete a single photo. Hover the tile and click the trash icon, then confirm “Are you sure you want to delete this upload?”. You can also click the photo open and use the trash icon in the detail view, handy when you need a close look first.

    a gallery tile on hover with the trash icon highlighted

  3. Delete many at once. Click Select in the page header, tick every photo to remove (or Select all), and click Delete selected. One confirmation covers the whole batch.

    select mode with several tiles checked and Delete selected highlighted

  4. Prefer hiding? Hide the gallery from guests. In the Guest upload controls card, switch on Hide live feed from guests. Guests can keep uploading, but only you can browse; guests who open the gallery see “Host has disabled live feed for viewing.” Flip it back off whenever you’re ready.

    the Hide live feed from guests toggle switched on

  5. Or hide just a group of photos. Move them into a hidden album: create an album, switch its PUBLIC VISIBILITY off in Edit Album, then use Select → Move to to file photos into it. Guests never see hidden albums; you see everything.

What you should see

Deleted photos vanish from your gallery, the guest gallery, and your file counts immediately. Hidden content stays counted and downloadable for you; the crossed-eye icon on an album pill reminds you it’s private.

If something goes wrong

  • You deleted the wrong photo. Deletion can’t be undone. If the guest still has the original, ask them to upload it again.
  • A guest still sees a photo you removed. Their gallery view was already open. Once they refresh, it’s gone.