Curate what shows up in your album

You're the editor of your album. Guests supply the photos; you decide what the room sees. Every control is built to be safe to tap: hide is instant and undoable, remove waits 30 days before anything is gone, and review means nothing goes public until you've said so.

The three tools

Each has its own guide: review uploads before they appear and hide, remove, and restore.

Where the controls are

1. Dashboard
2. Your event
3. Gallery

• On a desktop, hover any tile in the gallery for three quiet controls: the heart, Save, and Hide (or Show on a hidden one).
• On a phone, tiles show the heart and Save; open the photo to hide it.
• In the photo viewer, the host row adds Hide and Remove. Whatever you hide or remove leaves the highlight reel too; there's nothing separate to curate there.
• In Select mode, act on many at once: Select in the gallery header, or press and hold a tile. See select many photos at once.
• In Review, when uploads are waiting: Approve all in one tap, open one to Reject or Approve it, or Select to sort.

A sensible routine

For most events: leave review off, let the album fill live, and hide the odd blurry frame when you spot it. For an event with an audience (a screen in the room, a client, a family that will see everything), turn review on and approve in batches. Either way, do the fine curation the next morning in Select mode; nothing you hid or removed during the night is lost.

What guests see meanwhile

Only approved, unhidden photos. There's no "removed" placeholder, no dimmed tile, no sign anything was curated. Your own view keeps hidden photos in place, dimmed to 30 percent opacity, so you can find them again. The one exception is a guest's own list: at an event that reviews uploads, the guest who sent a photo you rejected, hid or removed sees it marked Not approved in their own uploads, with no reason, and nobody else sees it. For a bad moment, the playbook is in reporting content and keeping your event safe.