How to Stop Google From Sharing Your Photos

Disabling link sharing is the quickest way to restrict who can view a shared album or individual picture. Only people you’ve explicitly invited will have access (we’ll look at removing their access, too).

Disable Album Sharing

First, here’s how to turn off photo sharing if it’s an album. Do this if you’ve created a share link from an album and you want to deny access through that link.

Remove Specific People From a Share

You can also remove a specific person from a Google Photos album. To see who still has access despite link sharing being turned off, repeat the first three steps above and then follow these steps:

Disable Sharing on a Single Photo

Is it just a single image you’ve shared? Then it’s not included in the Library area, but instead the Sharing part of the app. Follow these steps to delete the share link for an individual image:

Even with link-sharing turned off, you can still share photos and videos through direct sharing. This is more like instant messaging built into Google Photos.

Link sharing lets anyone with the URL view one of your photo albums, even if they’re not logged in to their Google account.