How to Upload Pictures on Alexa Echo Show

We have recently been exploring means to leverage "shared photos" as some other way to encourage remote interactions among family unit members, and we wanted to find means that an Repeat Evidence could be used for photo sharing.

The skillful news: at that place are several ways to do that, and this solution explains how.

There are multiple ways to get photo sharing on an Echo Show, depending on how you lot currently utilise the product, and on your level of technical sophistication.

This solution describes 3 ways:

• You already utilise Alexa Video Calls;
• You take phyiscal access to the Echo Evidence;
• You need to do it remotely (but video calls are not gear up 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 lot! Since their proper noun is already in your Alexa Contacts, you tin easily share photos from your iPhone or Android phone using the simple steps below.

If you have been previously sending photos by e-mail, yous may have overlooked this option.

Here is a video of Photo Sharing on Echo Prove.

Simple Direct Photo Sharing: The Steps

1. In your Apple tree Photos app or Android Gallery app, select a photograph

2. Tap the share icon

3. Tap the Amazon Alexa icon
   1. Note- yous can merely transport ONE photograph at a fourth dimension. If you select more than one, the Amazon Alexa icon will not appear
   2. Ane fourth dimension only
      1. Tap "GOT IT" to send photos to Alexa devices
      2. Allow Amazon Alexa to admission photos

4. Tap your loved one's contact name
5. Tap Share
6. You can besides type or speak a message
7. Tap send

Wow! I never noticed that! What does my loved one come across when they become the photo?

It will appear with an on-screen message and a sound. They tin merely say "Alexa, testify the photo"

If they missed the message, it will be seen in rotation with other Home Content information, if you lot take left the Echo Show Dwelling 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 show upward in your Alexa app.

You can view their reactions in the Alexa app by borer Communicate

They tin also say "Alexa, show photos from XXX" where Xxx is the Alexa Contact's name or nickname of any family member who has shared photos. This is a very easy style for your loved one to select a slide testify of photos from a specific family member. Your loved one tin besides swipe through the photos

Non Using Alexa Video Calls?

Well, that is great, simply I'grand currently non doing Alexa Video Calls, is there whatsoever other manner to share photos?

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

WallPaper Settings (requires physical access)

If you have physical admission to your loved ane'due south Echo Show, you can make a modify to its wallpaper settings to point at an Amazon Photos Album where y'all and other family members can post pictures. The pictures will show upward as a rotating background serial of photos overlayed past information such as weather.

No Access to the Echo Prove?

If you don't have physical access to their Echo Show, I'll bear witness you how to do that remotely by using your loved ane's Alexa business relationship on your mobile device.

The common Photo-Frame type display with rotating family unit photos can exist implemented using solution 1 or solution 2.

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

Here are three solutions that differ on features for the loved i and ease of employ for those posting photos.

1. Alexa App Photos
2. Amazon Photos App Drove
3. Shared Photos

Solution	Requires Amazon Photos	Loved One's account login	Loved One every bit a Contact	Rotational groundwork display	Allows loved one's feedback	Comments
1 Alexa App Photos	NO	Yes- every time	No	Aye	No	Easiest setup, hardest to mail service photos
ii Amazon App Photos	Yep	Yes- once	Yes	Yes	No	Difficult setup, easier to postal service photos
three Shared with you photos	Aye	Aye- in one case	Yes	No	Yes	Offers on-demand slideshow with feedback.

Here is a YouTube video showing the 3 photo sharing solutions in action.

I suggest that you endeavour solution one equally it's the easiest to implement.

After doing that, if you lot make up one's mind that it'south too much problem having to log into your loved one'due south business relationship to mail photos, read through solution 2 which offers a ways to hands post from within your Amazon Photos app. After its setup, solution 2 allows y'all to easily switch between several albums that you take created.

Solution 3 can be used separately, or in add-on to other solutions, to provide a means for a loved 1 to first a full-screen family photo slideshow and add together their feedback to photos.

Note that solutions 2 & three require that your loved one exist an Alexa Contact. If you currently have Alexa calls with them, they are already an Alexa Contact. If not, you can add them by following the steps in this commodity.

Although the solutions below deal with displaying on an Echo Show, there is a manner to change the photos displayed every bit a screen saver on a loved one'due south Fire TV (Cube, Stick or Burn down Television receiver Edition). Delight note that the screen saver must exist locally enabled and requires at least a 5-minute timeout with no video prove running for the screen saver to beginning. Fire TV screen savers also fourth dimension out and there is no way to currently change the timeout.

OK, how do I do information technology?

Solution 1- Alexa App Photos

This works even if your Grandpa doesn't have Alexa Contacts or Amazon photos.

Information technology works without those settings because you are logging into grandad's Alexa account. This is non equally flexible every bit the other methods, but if you don't desire to set upward Alexa Calling and Amazon photos, this is a proficient choice.

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

Step by Step Instructions.

In the Alexa app- sign out of your account

• Tap More
• Tap Settings
• Scroll downwardly and Tap "Not xxx? Sign out"
• Tap Sign Out

At present, Login with your Grandad's account

• You may be asked to validate the account by text or email
• Tap his name
  • Confirm his name
• Skip whatever "Verify your telephone number"
• Skip the Alexa voice training
• Tap devices
• Tap "Done" if prompted to add new devices
• Tap Repeat & Alexa
• Tap his Repeat Show
• Scroll down to Home Screen Background and Tap it

• Tap Uploaded Photos

• Tap Continue
• Tap OKAY to add Photos (if asked)

• On Android Phones, you can choose from several sources.
  • If non motorcar-presented, tap the three bars in the upper left
• On iPhones, you tin only add from the phone storage, which can include albums.

• Select up to 10 photos and tap Add

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

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

If y'all find it inconvenient to log into Granddad'south business relationship each time you want to send a new photo, consider dedicating an old tablet or phone (no prison cell service required) to his account.

Solution 2- Amazon Photos App

This solution is harder to set up upwards, simply makes information technology much easier to add photos later on.

In that location are 3 steps involved:

1. Add your photos to an Amazon Photos album
2. Add the Amazon Photos anthology to a drove (grouping)
3. Change the wallpaper setting on the Echo Show to indicate at the collection (group)

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

If you are using an iPhone:

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

• Open the Amazon Photos app (to add that album to Amazon Photos)
• Plough off Motorcar-SAVE (if asked)
  • Tap Done
• Tap "More" 3 bars in lower right
• Tap "Upload Photos and Videos"
• Tap on the "Smart Collections" (Apple Photos album) you just created
• Select the photos you want
• Tap Upload

Your Apple tree Photos are now in an Amazon Photos Collection

If you are using an Android phone:

• Open the Amazon Photos app
• Tap Albums
• Tap the 3 dots in the upper correct
• Tap Create Anthology & name information technology
• Tap Next
• Add photos
• Tap Create
• Tap "<" in upper left
  • It may accept a few moments for the photos to appear

The 2nd step- add the Amazon Photos album to a group in Amazon Photos app

Using an iPhone OR an Android phone:

Please note that Amazon calls them "Groups" in Amazon Photos, only later 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
  • You volition more photos later
• If using Android
  • Tap Side by side
• If using iPhone
  • Tap Share
  • Tap "Untitled Group"
  • Tap Add members

• Tap Grandpa'southward name
  • If yous don't see Grandpa's name, Tap Testify More than Contacts
    • If nonetheless y'all don't see Grandpa'southward proper name
  • If yous still don't encounter Grandpa's name
    • Tap "<"
    • Tap More
    • Tap Settings
    • Tap Contact Book
    • Plough on "Apply Your Alexa Contacts"
      • If you have previously setup Alexa Calling for him, his proper noun will now show up
    • Tap "<"
    • Tap "<"
  • If you lot all the same don't see Grandpa'southward proper name
    • Type in his electronic mail address
    • Tap Next
    • Tap Share
      • This will send Granddad an e-mail. I advise you temporarily add his email business relationship to your mobile device. You can do that with a web mail service business relationship

• This will create a group that you tin can rename
  • Yous will demand to setup an Amazon Photos account for him- perform Step 1a below
    • Then first Footstep 1 over again
• If using Android
  • Tap Share
• If using iPhone
  • Tap Invite

• The Group is auto-named for you

• I suggest you lot change the name to something more useful; eastward.g. Grandpa Photos
  • Tap the existing name
  • Tap it again on the next screen
  • Yous will finally exist allowed to edit it
  • Tap Rename
• Tap "<"
• Tap "<" once again

• Tap "<" in upper left

You should now see your group named Grandpa Photos with the photos selected. This "grouping proper noun" is what y'all will employ on the Repeat Show "wallpaper" setting as an Amazon Photos Anthology

Notation that information technology shows that it's shared with your Grandpa's offset name in his Amazon account

Adding more photos

• In the Amazon Photos app
• Tap "Photo(s)"
• Tap "+" in the lower correct
• Select your photos
• Tap "Adjacent"
• Tap "Share"
• Tap "< "

The third pace is to change the wallpaper setting to signal at that Amazon Photos anthology:

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

If y'all accept access to the Echo Evidence

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

If you don't have access to the Repeat Show

• To Logout of Amazon Photos every bit yourself
  • Tap More (3 bars in lower right)
  • Tap Settings
  • Roll down and sign out
• Login as your loved one in the Alexa Photos
• Turn off Auto-SAVE
• Tap Done
• Tap "Skip" in upper correct
• Tap More than (3 bars in lower right)
• Tap "Personalize Echo Show & Burn TV"
• Tap your loved one's Echo Show or Fire TV
• Tap "Add together more collections"
• Select the collections you lot desire to add
• Tap Save

You can so see which collections will be viewing.

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

• Tap "<"
• Tap "<"
• Tap Settings
• Scroll down and sign out

Your loved one will now have a rotating background screen of family unit photos with an advisory overlay. It may accept a few minutes for this to have event.

Whew! I have information technology all setup at present, how to I add/delete photos in the hereafter?

Now that your loved i's Echo Testify has been set to use your Amazon Photos collection, all that you (or other family unit members) have 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:

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

It may take a few minutes before they notice any changes .

Please note that you can create several albums and switch which anthology or grouping of albums your loved one sees by changing the above wallpaper setting on their Echo Show. It'south great to be able to do this remotely!

Solution 3- Shared With You Photos

This solution tin be used with either of the in a higher place solutions. Its master feature is that information technology gives your loved one a style to answer to photos.

Information technology relies on Contacts in Alexa Communications, which you volition showtime need to prepare upwardly, as shown in our article. If you already are doing Alexa Calling with your loved one, you already accept Alexa Contacts setup.

In the Alexa app on your mobile device

• Tap Communicate
• Tap Share

• Tap Got information technology

• Tap Photograph Gallery/Camera Coil

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

• Tap the photos source and select One Photograph at time
• Tap a Contact name (This is why you demand Alexa Calling enabled)
  • If you lot don't have it enable, see this commodity on Alexa Calling.
• Tap Share

You tin also include a typed or phonation bulletin. This will exist sent separately and an Alexa "bulletin" containing either text or sound for your loved one.

You lot tin see a list of the photos you take sent and view the responses your loved one may accept sent back.

You tin delete any of the photos by opening the Amazon Photos app

• Tap Sharing
• Await under Alexa Sharing for your loved 1's name
• You lot can remove photos for the shared grouping

What will my loved one see on their Echo Show?

Note: By default, "Shared with You" under Settings- Home Content was set to "ON" when the Echo Evidence was initially fix. If that setting were turned off, you would need to discover someone to plow it back on if you lot can't visit your loved 1, as I tin can't notice a fashion to do it remotely. Your loved one will still become the annotation of a photograph being received, but non the repeating reminder. They can notwithstanding view the photos by saying, "Alexa, what are my Shared Photos?"

Your loved 1 volition go a note in their Echo Show that y'all have shared a photo. If they missed the message, the Dwelling Content characteristic mentioned above would again display that note during the rotational brandish of information

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

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

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

This "shared with yous" method has an advantage over the photo frame blazon display in that your loved one can verbally request that the serial of displayed pictures by saying, "Alexa, what are my Shared Photos?" They can then sequence through them and provide feedback to y'all at any time.

At that place are on-screen controls for Pause/Resume, Forward/Back likewise as spoken Alexa commands for the same features using those commands.

Tips & Tricks

Seeing what your loved one enjoyed

Information technology may not exist obvious, merely Amazon Photos has gear up a grouping for you and your loved 1. If yous too have an Echo Show, and have turned on "Shared with you", you will receive a note in the screen rotation that your loved one has responded to a photo.

If you lot say "Alexa, what are my shared photos?", you lot will see the photos you shared, along with your loved one'southward comments

If your loved i has problems speaking the Alexa vox commands, consider calculation a button to brand Alexa proactive equally described in the article on Alexa Routines

Which app to use?

• The Alexa app is used to add photos to the groups for sharing and provides a new photograph notification.

• The Amazon Photos app is used to view the history of a series of photos and to remove them from the group.
  • Note, you could use this app to add photos, simply your loved 1 wouldn't become a notification.

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