Place Photos & Street View

Owner photos, customer photos, Google photos, and Street View

A place profile can show photos from up to four sources, and Stitch distinguishes between them:

• Owner photos — uploaded by the place's verified owner or manager to showcase the business.
• Customer photos — uploaded by any Stitch user who visits or interacts with the place.
• Google photos — sourced from Google Places/Google Maps for Google-backed places. These belong to Google, not Stitch, and are shown with attribution.
• Street View — a street-level preview image sourced from Google Street View where coverage exists for that location, shown separately from the regular photo gallery.

How to upload a photo

Any Stitch user can upload a customer photo to a place; verified owners can additionally upload owner photos.

1. Open the place profile and go to its photo gallery.
2. Tap the add/upload button.
3. Choose a photo from your device or take a new one.
4. Confirm the upload — it appears in the gallery, labeled as an owner or customer photo depending on your relationship to the place.

How to report a photo

If an owner or customer photo looks wrong for the place, is inappropriate, or violates our Community Guidelines, you can report it directly from the viewer.

1. Open the photo in full-screen view.
2. Tap the report or options icon.
3. Choose a reason for the report and submit it.
4. Stitch reviews reported photos and may remove them at its discretion; you won't need to take further action after reporting.

Google photos and Street View can't be reported to Stitch

Google photos and Street View images are not uploaded to Stitch and can't be reported or removed through Stitch — they're Google's own content, fetched live from Google Maps each time you view them, never stored or cached by Stitch. If a Google photo is wrong, outdated, or inappropriate, use the "View on Google Maps" link in the full-screen viewer to report it directly to Google instead.

Using the full-screen photo viewer

Tapping any photo in a place's gallery opens it full-screen. From there you can pinch or double-tap to zoom in on details, and swipe left or right (or use the arrow buttons) to move between photos in the gallery without going back to the grid each time. A close button returns you to the place profile.

For a Google photo, the viewer also shows a "Google Maps" source label, credits the original photographer when Google provides that information, and includes a "View on Google Maps" link to see the photo on Google's own site. This attribution is required by Google and Stitch never removes, crops, or alters it.

Photo rules

Photos you upload must actually depict the place, must be your own or ones you have the right to share, and must not be sexually explicit, illegal, misleading, or expose someone else's private information without consent. See our Places Business Terms and Community Guidelines for the full rules — violations can lead to photo removal and, for repeated violations, restriction of your ability to upload.