An Amazon Echo Show is featured for use in a bedroom or even in a living room. Apart from controlling smart home devices, you can use the Echo Show to display your images from Amazon Photos and make the Echo Show act as a photo frame. Wondering how? This article will outline the steps to follow to do that if you need to know how, read on.
How to get pictures to show up on your Echo Show from Amazon Photos
May be you wished to shut the news on your Echo Show and check out the images of friends, family, and trips instead. Fortunately, there are ways to enable Amazon Photos on the Echo Show and change the home screen to show things you’ll love.
All right, and before we go any further with album curation or with smarmy slideshows, you will have to make sure your Echo Show is linked to Amazon Photos. Here’s how to do that: Here’s how to do that:
- On Echo Show, go down, then choose settings.
- Go down and tap on Clock & Photo Display.
- In the menu, go to Amazon Photos.
- Choose several albums from which pictures can be displayed on the Echo Show.
- Hit on save to change.
After this, you can simply command Alexa to show all the pictures in the album. If you have more than one album, please ensure that you use the particular name of the album you want to use.
Such is the nature of the point. Using Amazon Alexa, you can view any album in Amazon Photos on your Echo Show. It is very simple and effective to make the presentation of the liked vacation, family meeting, returning home, or graduation photos.
Through the Android or iPhone Amazon Photos app
There is no direct method to install or configure the Amazon photos, on the Echo Show, for this you can use the iOS or Android app. You can allow generating Daily Memories or choose the albums to display.
Originally, there is free trial for Amazon Photos for everyone with 5GB space without the need to be an Amazon Prime member. You can also make videos and view the media either through your desktop, laptop, or the application.
- Tap on the smile icon of your Amazon Photos app on your mobile.
- Scroll down the middle of the window, then choose Personalize Amazon Devices.
- Choose the Personalize Device from the Amazon Photos application.
- Choose your Echo Show from the output list above.
- To turn on or off Daily Memories, switch on the main screen.
- Save after deciding on the photos then on the Echo Show.
Should you already have an Amazon Photos album, it will be very simple to surface pictures from it on the Amazon Echo Show. It is, therefore, important to delete any images that are already in Amazon Photos so that you do not revisit them over and over.
How to Immediately Upload Pictures to Your Echo Show
But instead of using Amazon Photos, you can use the Alexa app to directly put any picture on your smartphone on your Echo Show.
- Launch the Amazon Alexa app and click on the device option.
- Touch the Echo Show on which you want the photos to be displayed.
- Select the Photo Display option.
- Click on the option Uploaded Photos.
- Click on the + icon in order to add photos.
- Tap on the device display switch so that it changes to blue.
The desktop and app versions have a clean design that allows you to quickly choose and upload your favorite photos and videos hassle-free.
There are options that you can activate to make the photos occupy the full screen on your Echo Show device.
Sync Your Images Anywhere
Watching the overall progress of the whole year through using Amazon Photos combined with the using the Echo Show is again quite neat.
It is quite convenient to link both platforms and start several sequences – uploading the albums into Amazon Photos and then into the Settings option on the Echo Show.
If you don’t like the Amazon Photos, then you can also set photos from Facebook to appear on your Echo Show. This if I haven’t already done so it will need me to connect my profile with the Alexa app and put up pictures on Alexa.
FAQs:
Is an Alexa app needed to display pictures on the Echo Show?
Yes, Alexa is linked with Echo Show and there for, having the application installed on your smart phones will be useful when connecting them.
I often get about echo shows whether it is possible to just take pictures on one of these devices.
Of course, it’s not surprising to find a camera in the Echo Show, and it does offer some novel functionalities. You can even capture using the device in the event that there is a home invasion or break in. But it’s not a complete replacement to devices which are made particularly for use in home security.
Is it possible to upload my Facebook photos to the Echo Show?
However, the latest update has it that Amazon has taken down the ability to add your Facebook photos to the Echo Show. But you can download them from Facebook and then upload them to Amazon Photos.
