How to let guests download photos, or stop them

Enable Downloads in Gallery Settings controls whether guests see a download button. Require login to download adds a name to each download.

Sidhant Sinha
Sidhant Sinha · Founder, EventPixel
Published September 6, 2026

By default guests can download any photo from the gallery. Two switches under Settings, then Gallery Settings, control this.

Enable 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

Off by default, which means anyone with the gallery link can download without an account. Turn it on and guests are asked to sign in before a download starts. Use this when you want to know who took copies, for example at a corporate event with press photos. It only applies while Enable 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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