Protect your group’s brand identity by restricting members’ ability to upload their own photos to your group and events. 

Desktop web

Group organizers can find this setting by following these steps:

1. On your Meetup group’s homepage, click Manage group then select Edit group settings.
2. Click Optional features.
3. Scroll down to Photo uploads.
4. Click the toggle to enable or disable member uploads.
5. Scroll down and click Save.

Meetup Pro administrators can only apply this setting to all groups in their network by following these steps:

1. Navigate to the Settings tab of your Pro dashboard.
2. Scroll down to Enable member photo uploads.
3. Click the toggle to enable to disable member uploads in all of your network’s groups.
4. Scroll down and click Save.

Who can upload photos

When the enable member photo uploads setting is on, then all members of the group can upload photos.

When the setting is off, the group's leadership team can still upload photos. Any member who has been made an Event Host is allowed to upload photos to the event(s) they are hosting. Other than that, no one else will be able to upload photos.

Sharing images of your group’s interests or activities is a great way to attract new members! The newly redesigned Photos page lets you manage your group and event photo albums.

Select Photos from your group homepage menu to get started.

Uploading photos to an album

Click the Add photos button. Select from the dropdown menu whether you’d like to Create new album or Add to existing album.

Drag and drop images into the photo uploader, or select from a folder. These photos must be in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format, be less than 15MB in size, and adhere to Meetup's Terms of Service.

Once photos have been uploaded, you can manage individual image settings by clicking the icon in the top right corner.

The options here allow you to:

• Download photo
• Set group photo - Place this photo as your group’s cover image
• Set thumbnail - Place this photo as this album’s thumbnail
• Update caption
• Move to a different album
• Report photo for violating our Community Guidelines
• Or delete photo

To comment on a photo, click the photo itself. Type your comment into the field and tap the send icon. Press Enter (on PC) or Return (on Mac) to create a new paragraph.

Tap the three dots icon below a comment you've posted to edit or delete your comment.

If you’re having trouble uploading a particular image to your group’s album, our Help Center article has some troubleshooting tips.

Sort your photo albums

Use the dropdown menu to sort by:

• Recent activity – The album with images most recently uploaded
• Date created
• Photo count – The number of total images in each album

The featured event photos you upload for your events will be automatically placed into your group’s default photo album, which is called Meetup Group Photo Album. 

Event photos uploaded on event homepages will be placed in a new album named for that particular event. Learn more about uploading event photos.

You may also create new group photo albums or rename them.

Rename photo albums

To change the title of your photo album, open the album and select Album settings.

Reorder and move photos

In the Album settings dropdown menu, you may also reorder the photos in the album, move photos to a different album, or delete the contents of your album.

An event photo album is a crowdsourced memory bank for a group. Albums are a great way to share memories with other members and give potential members an idea of what a group's events look like. 

Creating an event photo album

When photos are uploaded to an event, a photo album is automatically created for that specific event. Group organizers, co-organizers, and assistant organizers can create new photo albums from the Photos section of the group as well. All members can upload photos to an album but cannot create a new album.

Upload a photo to an event album

All photos should be under 15MB in size, in JPG, GIF, or PNG format, and adhere to Meetup's Terms of Service. If an uploaded photo does not appear immediately, please wait a few minutes before trying again.

Desktop & Mobile Web

1. From your Meetup group’s homepage, click Events.
2. To upload photos of an event you’ve already attended, click Past.
3. Click on the event to which you want to add your photos.
4. Scroll down to Photos, and click Add Photos.

Android App

1. Navigate to the Meetup group's page.
2. Under the "Meetups" section, tap See all Meetups.
3. Select the Meetup event from the Upcoming or Past tab.
4. Under the "Photos" section, tap Add Photos.
5. Select Take a photo or Select photo from the pop-up menu.
6. Select your photo, add a caption, and tap the Checkmark icon.

iOS App

1. Navigate to the Meetup group's page.
2. Under the "Meetups" section, tap See all.
3. Select the Meetup event from the Upcoming or Past tab.
4. Under the "Photos" section, tap Add Photos.
5. Select Take a photo or Select photo from the pop-up menu.
6. Select your photo, add a caption, and tap Post.

Note: On the Android and iOS apps, it’s only possible to remove photos that have been uploaded to albums.

Not all pictures turn out great. Maybe you were having a not-so-photogenic day, or you just want to change things up with your Meetup group and start fresh. Whatever the reason, you have the ability to remove any photo you upload to a Meetup group photo album. Don’t worry about another member deleting your memories; only the organizers and co-organizers can remove photos that aren’t their own.

Photos removed from an album are removed permanently. The only way to retrieve them is for the owner of the photo to re-upload them.

To remove a photo from an album:

Desktop Web

1. From your Meetup group’s homepage, select Photos
2. Open the album that contains the photo you want to remove
3. Click the photo you’d like to remove
4. Above the photo, click Delete
5. Confirm by clicking Yes, I’m Sure

Mobile Web

1. From your Meetup group’s homepage, select Photos
2. Open the album that contains the photo you want to remove
3. From the thumbnails, choose the photo you want to remove
4. Select the three dots icon and choose Delete
5. Confirm Delete this photo? with the Delete button

Android App

1. From your Meetup group’s homepage, scroll down to Group Calendar
2. Tap See all
3. Tap on the Meetup album that contains the photo you want to remove
4. Tap on the photo
5. Tap on the three dots icon in the upper right-hand corner
6. Select Delete from the drop-down menu
7. In the pop-up message that appears, tap Delete to confirm

iOS App

1. From your Meetup group’s homepage, scroll down to the "Meetups" section and tap See all
2. Select Upcoming or Past Meetups
3. Tap the Meetup event album that contains the photo you want to remove
4. Tap the photo
5. Tap the three dots icon in the upper right-hand corner
6. In the pop-up message that appears, tap Delete to confirm