How to let guests download photos, or stop them

The Downloads switch under Gallery rules controls whether guests see a download button. Require login to download, on by default, adds a name to each download.

Sidhant Sinha
Sidhant Sinha · Founder, EventPixel
Published October 23, 2026

By default guests can download any photo from the gallery after signing in. Two switches in Settings, under Gallery rules, control this.

Downloads

On by default. Turn it off to remove the download button from every photo in the guest gallery and the lightbox. Hosts and co-organizers can always download from the dashboard regardless of this setting.

Require login to download

On by default: guests are asked to sign in before a download starts, so you know who took copies. Turn it off and anyone with the gallery link can download without an account. It only applies while Downloads is on.

What guests can download

  • Single photos from the gallery or lightbox.
  • Their own PixelFind matches in one batch, with Download All My Photos, on plans that include PixelFind.

Guests do not get the full-event ZIP; that is host-only. See download all photos.

Quality

Guest downloads are the original files, not the optimised gallery previews.

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