Multi-part capture

What is multi-part capture

A single capture saves one moment; a photo of a drawing, a picture of a cake. But children's best work is rarely just one thing. A recipe book has a cover, an ingredient list, steps, and a finished dish. A birthday card has a front and an inside. A comic book has panels that need to stay in order. A science project has a hypothesis, materials, observations, and results.

Multi-part capture is the answer to "this has more than one part." It lets you save every piece of a creation in order, add voice notes to explain the tricky bits, and keep the whole thing together in the family gallery. The first part becomes the cover, and the family flips through the rest with Previous/Next controls.

When to use multi-part capture

Use multi-part capture whenever the creation has a beginning, middle, and end; or simply more than one side worth keeping. Here are the most common uses:

• Recipe books; cover, ingredients, cooking steps, finished dish. Save cookie recipes, birthday cakes, soup recipes, and family favourites with voice notes for the tricky steps.
• Holiday cards; front design, inside message, decorations. Birthday cards, Christmas cards, Mother's Day cards, Father's Day cards, thank-you notes, and Valentine's Day cards all stay together.
• Comic books and storybooks; cover, each page or panel in order, with the child narrating the dialogue and action.
• Science projects and experiments; hypothesis poster, materials, setup, observations over time, results. Perfect for school science fair projects, volcano experiments, plant growth studies, and at-home curiosity investigations.
• Building projects; plan or sketch, building process shots, the finished Lego castle, block tower, cardboard fort, or blanket palace before it comes apart.
• Crafts and DIY projects; origami steps, sewing projects, clay sculptures, bead necklaces, and any craft with multiple stages or sides.
• School projects and presentations; poster boards, dioramas, book reports with drawings, and any multi-page school assignment.
• Letters and journals; multi-page letters to grandparents, journal entries with drawings, and pen-pal correspondence.

How to start a multi-part creation

On Create, open More ways to create and choose Add more parts. You can also start with Capture a creation and choose Add more parts to this one after the first capture. Choose everyone who made the creation before capturing.

How multi-part capture works

1. Choose the creators

Select every child who helped make the creation and continue to capture. When a child is using their own profile, they stay selected and can add the other creators. Everyone selected is credited when you save.

2. Capture each part in order

Go through the creation part by part. The first capture becomes the gallery cover and thumbnail, so start with the best overview; the recipe's finished dish, the card's front design, the comic's cover, or the science project's hypothesis poster.

After each capture, choose Add another part or Edit and add details. Each part is saved on this device as you go. Titles, voice notes, and AI tools come after capturing, so you can keep going through the parts.

3. Edit and add details

Choose Edit and add details after any part, or Done adding parts from the camera, to review the creation. Open a part to edit it, try optional AI tools, or record its voice note. From review you can also:

• Move earlier or later; reorder parts with labeled buttons (no dragging needed)
• Replace; retake a part that did not turn out right
• Crop or turn; adjust framing on any part
• Put aside; remove a part temporarily (it stays stored and can be brought back)

In Details, add an optional name or leave it blank, then save. You can record a whole-creation voice note from review. The creation appears in the gallery as one item, with the first part as its cover.

Voice notes: whole creation and per part

Multi-part capture supports two levels of voice notes:

• Whole-creation voice note: add this from review after capturing to introduce the project. Viewers choose when to play it.
• Per-part voice notes: open any part from review and record what you want to say about it. Each note stays with that part and plays only when someone chooses to listen.

This two-level approach means the child gets to tell the full story without having to narrate every single part. The result is a creation that feels like the child is right there, explaining their work in their own words.

How many parts can a creation have

Up to 30 parts per creation. Most multi-part creations use far fewer:

• Holiday cards; 2–5 parts (front, inside, details)
• Recipe books; 4–10 parts (cover, ingredients, steps, finished dish)
• Comic books; 3–12 parts (cover, pages or panels)
• Science projects; 5–15 parts (hypothesis, materials, multiple observations, results)
• Building projects; 4–10 parts (plan, process shots, finished creation, action shots)

If a creation is very long; a 30-page comic, for example; split it into "Part 1" and "Part 2" creations.

Organising multi-part creations with spaces

Spaces are how you group related creations over time. Create a space called "Recipes" for all recipe books, "Holiday Cards" for every birthday card and Christmas card, "Comics" for storybooks, or "Science Projects" for experiments. A child can suggest a new space from the Spaces tab; a grown-up approves it, and it appears for everyone in the family.

By the end of the year, each space becomes a curated collection; all the recipe books, all the cards, all the comics; each one a multi-part creation with the child's voice explaining what they made.

Multi-part capture vs single capture

Use single capture (the shutter button on the Create tab) for creations that are one thing: a drawing, a painting, a single photo of a finished craft. Use multi-part capture for everything else; anything with more than one page, side, step, or stage.

When in doubt, multi-part capture works for single creations too. A child can capture one drawing and tap "Done adding parts"; it saves the same way. But for individual artworks, single capture is faster and simpler.