Google Photos is accessible on all major platforms except for the biggest screen in your home: the TV. For reasons best known to Google, it doesn’t offer a native Google Photos app for Google TV. And that can make viewing your photos and videos on the big screen far more cumbersome than it should be. Samsung will finally address this gap by integrating Google Photos directly into its TizenOS-powered TVs.
Ahead of CES 2026 early next year, the company announced a partnership with Google to integrate Google Photos into its TVs. Based on Samsung’s press release, though, it appears you will not be able to browse through your entire Photos library. Instead, Samsung TVs will show curated memories organized by people, places, and moments.
The Memories will launch in March 2026 and remain exclusive to Samsung TVs for the first six months.
Later in the year, Nano Banana will arrive on Google Photos for Samsung TVs via the “Create with AI” feature. It will let you generate themed templates, with the Remix tool helping you transform the style of your photos or videos directly on the big screen. Samsung notes that select AI templates will be exclusive to its TVs.
Samsung and Google also plan to bring personalized results to Google Photos on Samsung TVs. It will enable you to “view related photos as a slideshow based on topics or contents of memories e.g. ocean, hiking, Paris, etc.” This feature will arrive in the second half of 2026.
Google Photos integration will debut on Samsung TVs that launch in 2026. It will roll out to select existing TVs through a software update later in the year.
Google Photos is finally coming to the screen it deserves
Given Google Photos popularity, its integration into Samsung TVs makes a lot of sense. It brings one of Google’s most-used services to the biggest screen in the house. And this will help deliver a better experience, as you’ll no longer have to fumble around with casting photos and videos through Google Photos to the TV.
Hopefully, Google will announce a similar Google Photos integration for Google TV and other TV platforms in 2026.
