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If you have more images in your Google Photos app than you know what to do with, why not put your phone to work displaying them? With a few simple steps, you can use your Android phone’s screen saver feature to turn your phone screen into a digital picture frame while it charges.

This works especially well for phones with wireless charging (so you can see your photos with the phone propped up on a charger), but it will work with any kind of charging mode or if you connect your phone to a dock. It’s built right into the operating system, and it’s a neat, easy way to show off some of your favorite photos.

I used a Motorola Moto G Stylus (2022) for the steps below, but the process is very similar on a Samsung or Pixel phone. You’ll need to have the photos you want to display in a Google Photos album.

You’re done! Here are a few additional pointers for your brand-new, no-additional-cost digital photo frame:

The screen saver will always start with the first photo in the album and continue showing them in whatever order the album is sorted in. If that sounds a little too repetitive, you can create an auto-updating album. Here’s how to do it:

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