Google Photos Page
Album Selection Mode
This interface allows you to select one or more albums from your Google Photos account that will be displayed in the screensaver. The album contents are updated daily by the extension. Shared albums that were created by others will not be available. Videos are not supported and are filtered out of the album.
Toolbar Icons:
Switch to photo selection mode. You will be prompted to confirm the switch, since you will lose your current album selections.
Select the maximum number of albums. The current limit is 200. This will load the photos for each album up to a maximum of 2,000. This can be a lengthy operation. There is also a maximum total number of photos that you can select. The current value for this is 30,000.
Deselect all the currently selected albums
Refresh the list of albums from your Google Photos account. This will not reload the photos for selected albums.
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If the toggle is off, the screensaver will not use your Google Photos and will not update them daily, but your album selections will remain. If you toggle it on, the screensaver will use the photos in the selected albums and will also update the contents of all the selected albums. This can be a lengthy operation.
Album List:
The album list allows you to toggle your selected albums on and off. When you select an album, information about each photo will be retrieved from your Google Photos account. This can be a lengthy operation. If you have added or removed photos from an album in Google Photos and wish that to be reflected in the extension, you can deselect then reselect the album. The extension does automatically update the contents daily.
The count for unselected albums is the total number of items in the album. The count for selected albums is the actual number of photos the extension has retrieved. This will differ from total count if there are videos in the album or there are more than the maximum allowable photos per album.
Photo Selection Mode
This interface allows you to select the most recent photos from your Google Photos account that will be displayed in the screensaver. The number of photos is limited to a maximum of 3,000. The contents are updated daily by the extension. Videos are not supported and are filtered out.
If you want more control over which photos are used, you should create one or more albums in Google Photos and select them in the extension.
Toolbar Icons:
Switch to album selection mode. You will be prompted to confirm the switch, since you will lose your current photo selections.
Main UI:
If the “NEEDS REFRESH” button is active, the information on the stored photos is out of date and need to be refreshed. This can be a lengthy operation.
If this is selected, the extension will retrieve all of your most recent photos up to the maximum. These are automatically updated once a day.
If the “All photos” option is not enabled, the extension will retrieve your most recent photos that are labeled with one or more of the selected categories up to the maximum. These are automatically updated once a day.
These labels are automatically assigned in Google Photos and there is no guarantee that they are accurate.