How Do I Upload Photos to Amazon Show?

April 11, 2022 Post a Comment

We have recently been exploring ways to leverage "shared photos" as another way to encourage remote interactions among family members, and we wanted to detect ways that an Echo Show could be used for photo sharing.

The skilful news: there are several ways to do that, and this solution explains how.

At that place are multiple means to get photo sharing on an Echo Show, depending on how you currently utilise the product, and on your level of technical sophistication.

This solution describes iii means:

Yous already use Alexa Video Calls;
You have phyiscal admission to the Echo Show;
You need to do it remotely (only video calls are not set up).

Already Using Alexa Video Calls?

If you are already having Alexa Video Calls with your loved one, I have some good news for you! Since their proper noun is already in your Alexa Contacts, you lot can easily share photos from your iPhone or Android phone using the simple steps below.

If you have been previously sending photos by email, you may have overlooked this option.

Hither is a video of Photo Sharing on Echo Show.

Elementary Direct Photograph Sharing: The Steps

In your Apple Photos app or Android Gallery app, select a photo

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Tap the share icon

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Tap the Amazon Alexa icon
1. Note- you lot can simply ship ONE photo at a time. If y'all select more than one, the Amazon Alexa icon will non appear
2. One fourth dimension only
  1. Tap "GOT IT" to send photos to Alexa devices
  2. Allow Amazon Alexa to admission photos

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Tap your loved 1's contact name
Tap Share
Y'all can besides type or speak a message
Tap send

Wow! I never noticed that! What does my loved i see when they get the photo?

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Information technology will appear with an on-screen message and a sound. They tin simply say "Alexa, evidence the photo"

If they missed the message, it will be seen in rotation with other Home Content data, if you accept left the Echo Show Home Content setting at default or used our recommended settings.

If they tap the screen, they can send you a comment on that photo that will bear witness up in your Alexa app.

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You can view their reactions in the Alexa app past tapping Communicate

They can also say "Alexa, show photos from XXX" where Thirty is the Alexa Contact'south name or nickname of any family member who has shared photos. This is a very like shooting fish in a barrel way for your loved one to select a slide show of photos from a specific family member. Your loved i can also swipe through the photos

Not Using Alexa Video Calls?

Well, that is not bad, but I'm currently not doing Alexa Video Calls, is at that place any other mode to share photos?

No problem! I'll show you ways to handle that beneath.

WallPaper Settings (requires physical access)

If you have concrete access to your loved one's Repeat Show, you lot tin can make a modify to its wallpaper settings to betoken at an Amazon Photos Album where you and other family unit members can post pictures. The pictures will evidence up as a rotating groundwork series of photos overlayed past information such as weather.

No Access to the Echo Bear witness?

If you don't have physical access to their Echo Prove, I'll show you how to practise that remotely past using your loved one'south Alexa account on your mobile device.

The common Photograph-Frame blazon brandish with rotating family photos can be implemented using solution i or solution 2.

Solution 3 provides a means for your loved one to request a full-screen slideshow with the ability to respond to the photos.

Hither are 3 solutions that differ on features for the loved one and ease of apply for those posting photos.

Alexa App Photos
Amazon Photos App Drove
Shared Photos

Solution	Requires Amazon Photos	Loved One's business relationship login	Loved One as a Contact	Rotational groundwork brandish	Allows loved one's feedback	Comments
one Alexa App Photos	NO	Yeah- every time	No	Yes	No	Easiest setup, hardest to mail service photos

2 Amazon App Photos	Yes	Yeah- once	Yes	Yep	No	Difficult setup, easier to post photos

three Shared with you photos	Yep	Aye- once	Yes	No	Yes	Offers on-demand slideshow with feedback.

Hither is a YouTube video showing the iii photo sharing solutions in activity.

I suggest that you lot try solution one as it's the easiest to implement.

Subsequently doing that, if you make up one's mind that it's too much trouble having to log into your loved one's account to mail service photos, read through solution 2 which offers a means to easily post from within your Amazon Photos app. After its setup, solution two allows you to hands switch betwixt several albums that you have created.

Solution 3 can be used separately, or in add-on to other solutions, to provide a means for a loved ane to start a full-screen family photograph slideshow and add their feedback to photos.

Note that solutions ii & 3 crave that your loved one be an Alexa Contact. If you currently have Alexa calls with them, they are already an Alexa Contact. If non, you can add together them by post-obit the steps in this article.

Although the solutions beneath bargain with displaying on an Echo Testify, there is a manner to modify the photos displayed as a screen saver on a loved i'south Fire TV (Cube, Stick or Fire TV Edition). Please note that the screen saver must be locally enabled and requires at least a five-minute timeout with no video bear witness running for the screen saver to start. Burn Tv set screen savers also time out and in that location is no style to currently modify the timeout.

OK, how practise I do it?

Solution 1- Alexa App Photos

This works even if your Grandad doesn't take Alexa Contacts or Amazon photos.

It works without those settings because you are logging into granddad's Alexa account. This is non as flexible as the other methods, simply if you don't want to ready Alexa Calling and Amazon photos, this is a skilful choice.

Basically, you need to know his Amazon account login credentials and then logon to the Alexa app on your mobile device with his account. I volition provide step-by-step instructions beneath.

Step by Step Instructions.

In the Alexa app- sign out of your business relationship

Tap More
Tap Settings
Whorl downwardly and Tap "Not 30? Sign out"
Tap Sign Out

Now, Login with your Grandpa'southward account

Yous may be asked to validate the business relationship by text or email
Tap his proper noun
- Confirm his proper name
Skip any "Verify your telephone number"
Skip the Alexa vocalisation training
Tap devices
Tap "Done" if prompted to add new devices
Tap Echo & Alexa
Tap his Echo Bear witness
Scroll down to Home Screen Background and Tap it

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Tap Uploaded Photos

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Tap Continue
Tap OKAY to add Photos (if asked)

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On Android Phones, you can cull from several sources.
- If not motorcar-presented, tap the 3 confined in the upper left
On iPhones, you can merely add from the phone storage, which can include albums.

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Select upwards to ten photos and tap Add

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Be sure "Display on device" is enabled.
You lot can too delete photos from his display.

Your Grandpa will now have a continuously rotating background display of pictures.

If you find it inconvenient to log into Gramps'southward business relationship each time you want to send a new photograph, consider dedicating an old tablet or telephone (no jail cell service required) to his account.

Solution 2- Amazon Photos App

This solution is harder to prepare, but makes it much easier to add photos later.

In that location are 3 steps involved:

Add your photos to an Amazon Photos album
Add the Amazon Photos album to a drove (group)
Change the wallpaper setting on the Echo Prove to point at the collection (group)

The first pace- add photos to an album in your Amazon Photos app

If y'all are using an iPhone:

Tap the Apple Photos icon (to create an Apple tree Photos Album)
Tap Albums
Tap the "+" in upper left
Tap New Album & name information technology
Add together photos
Tap Done

Open the Amazon Photos app (to add that album to Amazon Photos)
Turn off AUTO-Relieve (if asked)
- Tap Done
Tap "More" three confined in lower correct
Tap "Upload Photos and Videos"
Tap on the "Smart Collections" (Apple tree Photos album) you lot simply created
Select the photos you want
Tap Upload

Your Apple tree Photos are now in an Amazon Photos Collection

If y'all are using an Android phone:

Open the Amazon Photos app
Tap Albums
Tap the 3 dots in the upper right
Tap Create Anthology & proper name it
Tap Next
Add together photos
Tap Create
Tap "<" in upper left
- Information technology may take a few moments for the photos to appear

The 2d step- add the Amazon Photos anthology to a group in Amazon Photos app

Using an iPhone OR an Android phone:

Please note that Amazon calls them "Groups" in Amazon Photos, but afterward refers to them as or "Collections" in the Alexa app.

Open the Amazon Photos App
Tap Sharing
Tap Share "+"
Tap Create a new group
- If you already have some groups, tap "+" in upper right corner
Select ANY photo
- Yous will more photos later
If using Android
- Tap Adjacent
If using iPhone
- Tap Share
- Tap "Untitled Group"
- Tap Add members

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Tap Grandpa's name
- If you lot don't see Granddad's name, Tap Bear witness More than Contacts
  - If still you don't see Grandpa's name
- If you withal don't run across Grandpa's proper name
  - Tap "<"
  - Tap More
  - Tap Settings
  - Tap Contact Volume
  - Plough on "Employ Your Alexa Contacts"
    - If you have previously setup Alexa Calling for him, his name will now show up
  - Tap "<"
  - Tap "<"
- If you withal don't meet Grandpa's name
  - Type in his email address
  - Tap Next
  - Tap Share
    - This will send Grandpa an email. I suggest you lot temporarily add together his email account to your mobile device. Yous can do that with a web mail account

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This will create a group that you lot can rename
- Yous volition need to setup an Amazon Photos account for him- perform Step 1a below
  - Then showtime Pace 1 over again
If using Android
- Tap Share
If using iPhone
- Tap Invite

The Group is automobile-named for you

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I suggest you change the name to something more useful; e.g. Gramps Photos
- Tap the existing proper noun
- Tap it over again on the side by side screen
- You will finally be allowed to edit information technology
- Tap Rename
Tap "<"
Tap "<" again

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Tap "<" in upper left

You should now run into your group named Grandpa Photos with the photos selected. This "group name" is what you will utilise on the Echo Prove "wallpaper" setting as an Amazon Photos Album

Annotation that information technology shows that it's shared with your Grandpa's showtime name in his Amazon business relationship

Adding more photos

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In the Amazon Photos app
Tap "Photo(s)"
Tap "+" in the lower right
Select your photos
Tap "Next"
Tap "Share"
Tap "< "

The third step is to modify the wallpaper setting to betoken at that Amazon Photos album:

You will demand to invite your loved one and family members to view the collection

If yous take access to the Echo Show

Swipe down from the top of the screen
Tap Settings
Tap Wallpaper & Clock
Tap Amazon Photos
Scroll down though and select the Anthology yous created in step on

If y'all don't have access to the Echo Evidence

To Logout of Amazon Photos as yourself
- Tap More (3 bars in lower right)
- Tap Settings
- Curlicue down and sign out
Login as your loved one in the Alexa Photos
Turn off Car-Save
Tap Done
Tap "Skip" in upper correct
Tap More (iii confined in lower right)
Tap "Personalize Echo Bear witness & Fire TV"
Tap your loved ane's Echo Show or Burn down Tv set
Tap "Add more than collections"
Select the collections y'all want to add
Tap Save

You can then see which collections will be viewing.

Be sure to log out of Amazon Photos as your loved one

Tap "<"
Tap "<"
Tap Settings
Scroll downwards and sign out

Your loved ane will now accept a rotating background screen of family photos with an informational overlay. Information technology may take a few minutes for this to have effect.

Whew! I have it all setup now, how to I add/delete photos in the future?

Now that your loved one'due south Echo Bear witness has been set to apply your Amazon Photos drove, all that yous (or other family members) take to do is add/remove photos using YOUR Amazon Photos app. That is the real beauty of this solution.

Login the Amazon Photos app using YOUR account:

Plough off AUTO-Salve
Tap Done
Tap "Skip for now" on the "Personalize Your Devices"
- These are devices on YOUR business relationship, not your loved one'southward account
- Tap "GOT IT"
Tap Albums
Tap on your loved one's album
To add a photo
- Tap on the 3 dots in upper right
- Tap add photos
- Tap Add
To delete a photo
- Tap on the photo
- Tap on the 3 dots in upper correct
- Tap "Move to Trash"
- Choose to as well delete from your device
Tap "<"

Information technology may take a few minutes before they observe any changes .

Please annotation that you tin can create several albums and switch which album or group of albums your loved i sees by changing the above wallpaper setting on their Echo Show. It'due south cracking to exist able to do this remotely!

Solution 3- Shared With You Photos

This solution can be used with either of the in a higher place solutions. Its principal feature is that it gives your loved one a way to respond to photos.

It relies on Contacts in Alexa Communications, which you lot volition first need to set up upwardly, as shown in our article. If you already are doing Alexa Calling with your loved one, you already have Alexa Contacts setup.

In the Alexa app on your mobile device

Tap Communicate
Tap Share

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Tap Got it

Tap Photo Gallery/Camera Roll

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On Android Phones, you can choose from several sources.
On iPhones, you lot can merely add together from the phone storage, which can include albums

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Tap the photos source and select ONE Photo at time
Tap a Contact proper name (This is why you demand Alexa Calling enabled)
- If you don't accept it enable, come across this article on Alexa Calling.
Tap Share

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You can also include a typed or voice message. This volition exist sent separately and an Alexa "message" containing either text or audio for your loved one.

Yous can see a listing of the photos you lot take sent and view the responses your loved one may have sent dorsum.

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You can delete any of the photos past opening the Amazon Photos app

Tap Sharing
Expect under Alexa Sharing for your loved one'south name
Y'all can remove photos for the shared group

What volition my loved i see on their Echo Testify?

Notation: By default, "Shared with You" nether Settings- Dwelling Content was set to "ON" when the Echo Show was initially fix. If that setting were turned off, y'all would need to find someone to turn it back on if you tin't visit your loved one, every bit I can't detect a fashion to do it remotely. Your loved one will still get the note of a photograph being received, but not the repeating reminder. They tin can still view the photos by saying, "Alexa, what are my Shared Photos?"

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Your loved one will go a note in their Repeat Testify that you have shared a photograph. If they missed the message, the Home Content feature mentioned in a higher place would over again display that annotation during the rotational brandish of data

Here is what they have to say to Alexa to view the photos; "Alexa, what are my Shared Photos?"

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They can tap on the photo and select an "emoji" icon

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The feedback your loved one will see when they touch the emoji

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This "shared with you" method has an advantage over the photograph frame blazon display in that your loved one can verbally asking that the series of displayed pictures past proverb, "Alexa, what are my Shared Photos?" They tin can then sequence through them and provide feedback to you at any time.

There are on-screen controls for Pause/Resume, Forward/Back as well every bit spoken Alexa commands for the same features using those commands.

Tips & Tricks

Seeing what your loved 1 enjoyed

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It may not be obvious, but Amazon Photos has fix a grouping for y'all and your loved i. If you also accept an Repeat Show, and accept turned on "Shared with yous", you will receive a notation in the screen rotation that your loved one has responded to a photo.