Select many photos at once

Curating one photo at a time is fine for one photo. For the forty near-duplicates from the cake table, there's Select mode.

Enter Select mode

1. Dashboard
2. Your event
3. Gallery
4. Select

Tap Select in the gallery header, or press and hold any tile for about half a second (that tile becomes your first pick). Tiles turn into checkboxes: tap to pick, tap again to unpick. The bar at the bottom shows your count with All and Clear beside it.

The actions

• Like: hearts them all.
• Hide or Show: the label flips to Show only when everything you've picked is already hidden.
• Download: bundles just the selection into a zip, no dialog, hidden ones included.
• Delete: asks you to confirm (the dialog names the count), then removes them all to Deleted.
• The X (Cancel selection) leaves Select mode.

Like reports once for the batch ("Liked 12 photos") rather than once per photo, and anything you'd already liked is skipped without a message. There's no reel action here: the highlight reel plays every photo guests can see on its own, so hiding a photo is how you keep it out. See the highlight reel.

In Review

Review has its own Select mode with a smaller bar: Reject and Approve for the picked uploads, each answered by a toast whose Undo puts them back in the queue. Uploads that arrive while you're selecting wait behind a line above the queue rather than joining it. See review uploads before they appear.

Your selection survives

If new uploads arrive while you're mid-selection, the album updates underneath you and your picks stay picked. Only leaving Select mode clears them.