Keepr Moving an album into a hub does two things at the same time, and it's worth separating them because people usually intend one and are surprised by the other.
- The storage moves. The album's photos stop counting against your personal allowance and start counting against the hub's.
- The audience changes. Unless you mark it private to you, everyone in the hub can see it — and add to it.
When to move an album#
When it's the family's rather than yours. The holiday everyone was on, the birthday everyone photographed, the years of pictures of your children that your partner should obviously be able to reach without asking you.
When to share instead#
When you want a particular group to see an album that's still yours — the grandparents seeing the school play, friends seeing the wedding photos. That's what circles are for, and it leaves the album on your storage and under your control.
Moving is about ownership. Sharing is about audience. They're easy to confuse because both end with more people seeing more photos.
Nothing is re-processed#
Moving doesn't re-upload or re-encode anything, and it doesn't change photo quality in either direction. The album simply belongs to the hub instead of to you.
One thing it does change: what the hub's plan governs from then on. New photos added to the album follow the hub's plan, not the plan of whoever adds them — see Hub storage and billing.
Moving it back out#
You can move an album out of a hub again, which returns it to your personal storage. That needs enough personal space to hold it, so an album that grew inside a large hub may not fit back into a small personal plan.
If other people have added to it#
An album that's been in a hub for a while usually contains photos other members uploaded. Moving it out takes the album with it — which is a bigger action than it looks, because it removes those photos from the household's shared archive.
If what you want is your own photos back rather than the whole album, ask for those specifically: see Ask for photos of you.