How To Add Pictures To Echo Show

As Alexa smart displays have taken residency in our homes, one of their best talents is serving as a fashion to enjoy photos.

These screens spend a lot of time doing very petty, so why not apply them to add some decorative flair to the room in their downtime? You can modify the background to your ain shots for a big dose of personalisation, and even do a slideshow.

The Amazon Echo Show line, which at present includes an Echo Show 5, Echo Show eight, all-new Repeat Bear witness 10 and the wall-mounted Echo Show fifteen, mean at that place are more than ways to to share your memories.

At that place are 2 means to do this on the Echo smart screens, either using Amazon Photos or Facebook. We'll walk you through both below.

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Add together Facebook photos to Echo Show

The chances of y'all owning a Facebook account are far greater than the chances of you using Amazon Photos, so we'll start here.

Of class, in that location's also a high chance you have some unsavoury photos from high schoolhouse parties which you'd rather not have on display when gran comes over for dinner – don't worry, yous can pick and choose which albums go shared.

Offset, though, you need to connect your Facebook account to Alexa. So do the following:

1. Open up the Alexa app on your smartphone.
2. Tap More in the lesser bar
3. Select Settings.
4. Scroll down to Photos.
5. Under Facebook, tap Link business relationship.

You lot'll be redirected to a page where you'll demand to log in to your Facebook account and give Alexa authorization to access your personal photos.

To become them rolling on the screen of your Echo Prove or Spot, practise the following:

ane. Swipe downward from the top of the screen on your Echo device and tap Settings.
two. Tap 'Home & Clock'.
3. And then tap 'Clock'.
4. Tap 'Personal Photos'.
v. Select 'Groundwork'.
six. Tap 'Facebook'.
seven. And so select the anthology(southward) you lot wish to connect to Alexa.
8. Tap 'Relieve' at the bottom of the screen and yous're washed.

Your Echo device will now show your Facebook photos in the background. If you want to change the clock confront that's layered over the photos, head back to Personal Photos and instead select 'Clock Face'.

You can besides accept Alexa show your photos in a rotating carousel by saying, "Alexa, show my photos" or "A lexa, testify my photo albums".

Add Amazon Photos to Echo Show

If yous use Amazon's photo service, or at least accept access to it, y'all can also use information technology to create photograph slideshows on your Repeat Show – but you'll need to create albums to exercise so. To get this set, exercise the following:

ane. Go to the Amazon Photos site (make certain y'all're signed into the same account every bit on your Echo device).
ii. Select Albums > Create album.
3. Drag and drop the pics you desire into the album, then salvage it and give information technology a name.

Then, here'south what you need to practise on the Echo Testify or Spot.

1. Swipe downward from the top of the screen and tap Settings.
two. Tap Habitation & Clock
3. Then tap Clock & Wallpaper
4. Tap Personal Photos.
five. Select Background.
six. Tap the Amazon Photos option.
7. So select the album(due south) yous wish to connect to Alexa.
8. Tap Salvage at the bottom of the screen and you lot're done.

Again, saying "Alexa, bear witness my photos" or "Alexa, show my photo albums" will put your photos on display. You can also ask for specific albums by proper name – requite information technology a get.

You can as well exercise the aforementioned steps mentioned above for Facebook photos, within the Alexa app, but only choose Amazon Photos instead.

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