From my photos: many at once, sorted into moments

Add to the page → From my photos takes many photos at once — a day out, a trip, a year — and turns them into memories the way you would by hand, only faster. Up to 100 in one go.

Moments

The photos are read for their own facts (P27: the day they were taken, and where) and cut into moments: one day in one place is one memory. A night that runs past midnight stays one moment; a trip that moves town starts a new one. Photos with no date land together under From my photos. Each moment gets a title from its day and place — Muskoka, 12 August 2019 — which you can change before anything is created, along with unticking a moment or a photo, or merging one into the one above.

Three things are left unticked for you to tick back: photos that are already on this page (the page remembers each photo it holds), files that look like screenshots, and videos in HEVC, a format some browsers and older phones can't play. The same check now runs when you add photos to a memory. A moment dated to a camera's factory date (1 January 2000) starts undated and says so; one from before the person was born, or after the years a Remembered page covers, is flagged so you can check the year.

A day that's already on the page

When the page already has a memory from a moment's day — someone else brought in the same wedding, or you wrote about that day by hand — the moment says so, quietly: There's already a memory from that day: "Sam's wedding". Add these photos to it instead? Nothing changes unless you choose it; the moment stays a new memory until you tap Add them to it (or pick one, when there are two or three from that day). Make a new memory instead puts it back. Only memories with that exact day are offered — one dated just to a year or a decade isn't "that day" — and a memory in the same place comes first.

Where the photos go depends on whose memory it is:

• Yours: they join its photos, after the ones already there — the same as adding them in its editor.
• Someone else's: they go under it in What others remember, with your name on them, the way you'd add photos to anyone's memory. Their memory stays theirs. On a page that reviews what people add, they wait for the people who look after the page, like any photos you add there.

These photos don't wait as drafts: they're added as they land, once you bring the moments in, and the last screen says where they went — 3 photos added to "Sam's wedding". Photos already on the page are left unticked here too, so the same picture doesn't go in twice. A memory holds up to 100 photos, and every moment you send to the same memory shares that room; if they come to more than it has, the line says how many more fit, and Bring in waits until they do.

Remove this import takes these photos back out as well as removing the drafts — only the ones this import added — and asks first, since they may already be on the page for everyone. If you've since written something with the photos you added to someone else's memory, your words stay.

Kept to yourself first

Every new moment lands as a draft — kept to yourself — with its photos. Nobody else, managers included, sees them until you publish. Then Publish all, or look through them first: the drafts sit on the Kept to yourself view of the grid with one bar for the run — Publish all 23 or Remove this import. Each draft is an ordinary memory you can open and add a line to. On a page that reviews contributors' memories, a manager gets the same one decision for the run.

To add only some of them — or drafts from different runs together — choose Select on the Kept to yourself view, tap the ones that are ready, and Add to page; Set when gives them a year or a decade on the way, and Remove lets the rest go.

If something goes wrong

Every photo that lands is saved as it lands, so a closed tab or a dropped connection loses only what hadn't arrived. Pick the same photos again and the page ticks only the ones still missing. A photo you removed from the page later isn't remembered — it will be offered again, on purpose.