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title: "Add your child’s photos | Once Books"
description: "How many photos to upload and what makes a good one, plus what happens next: location data removed on upload, used only to build your book, and yours to delete any time."
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# Add your child’s photos

Updated 17 August 2026

Your child’s photos are what let the book star them by name and face. A few good ones is all it takes.

## What works best

- Upload three to five clear, well-lit photos of your child’s face.
- A mix of angles helps: straight on, and a little to each side.
- Phone photos are fine, so long as you skip the heavy filters, the sunglasses, and the busy backgrounds that make a face hard to read.

For the fuller guide, with examples of what helps and what to avoid, see [how to choose photos for your book](https://www.oncebooks.com/blog/how-to-choose-photos-for-your-book).

## What happens to them

We remove location data and other metadata (EXIF, GPS) from every photo once it clears moderation, so a child’s photo never sits in storage tagged with where it was taken.

Your child’s photos are used only to build this book’s character references, and our system refuses, in code, to send those references to any AI provider that trains on user data.

You can delete your photos or the whole book at any time, and you can email us for a full data-deletion request without an account.

Finished books are private by default. A share link is long and unguessable, and a book becomes public only if you choose to make it so.

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