With some regularity, the Google services and applications receive updates and general modifications in its operation. Google Photos, the app focused on storing, managing and editing photos also received a latest update that increases the social factor. Interaction with other users through your Google account, being able to update the feed with your latest photos.
In any case, this is a feature that you can easily disable. This way you can choose in a personalized way whether or not you want to share your latest photos. In addition, this Google Photos update adds to other relatively recent changes to the Google platform. We tell you what they are and how to get the most out of them.
The Google Photos update: My Week
Analyzing the application code, references from the Android Authority website found references to a function called My Week. According to the descriptive text in the code, the function is responsible for automatically gathering different photos from your week to the friends you have selected.
Apparently this is an extension of another function that is currently in operation: Memories (or Memories). This function can be customized and the user chooses which photos to include within a timeline that is widely used for presentations at birthdays, graduations and other events that require a historical recount through photos.
Unlike Memories, an occasional and customizable feature, My Week aims to share the most relevant images in your gallery on a weekly basis. Based on Android Authority's revisions to the source code, you'll be able to configure who receives photos and which images are shared. A fundamental factor since it would be a little uncomfortable if all the photos you take reach all the people on your list, or maybe not.
It remains to be seen if the new update really allows its manual activation or deactivation. Otherwise it could really be an invasion of users' privacy. Updating Google Photos can get really annoying if it's enabled by default and you don't feel like sharing any of your photos.
If you are not interested in sharing the photos in your gallery with your contacts, the function has no reason to exist. But as long as the configuration allows you to enable or disable the proposal in a single step, it may not cause major inconveniences.
Other recent updates and changes to interaction with Google Photos
The toolbar was recently modified to include pride of place for the Memories section. Now access to this function is faster and more direct, with an icon that in a matter of seconds shows you the different photos from each day. In the Memories section you can see all the presentations that Google Photos created using a vertical design carousel with the most relevant photos in collage format.
There was also a relatively recent update for invite other people to add to your Memories. In this case, they are asked to add their own images and videos, creating something like a shared album but that will go directly to the memories section.
Continuing with the customization, the Memories section can now generate titles. So can quickly and specifically identify each of the presentations created by Google Photos from your media content in the gallery.
Increasing the social possibilities, Google Photos also recently included alternatives to share memories from other apps. Imagine that you want to share the automated collage from your social networks or from the WhatsApp messaging app. Like other Google service updates, temporarily and to test their performance, the new features are only available in the United States. Later they reach the rest of the countries.
Revamped navigation bar and AI features
Another recent Google Photos updates It is the navigation bar, from where you can access different functions and content more easily. And the inclusion of generative Artificial Intelligence to organize and generate content, timelines and collage in a much more precise way.
Google Photos is much more than a simple image and video management application. It is also a complete assistant that organizes, orders and allows you to modify different aspects related to the multimedia content on your mobile.
From Google Photos you can save different files in the cloud and content, so it becomes much easier to manage the entire gallery. The updates incorporate new functions and tools for even more precise control, but they gradually arrive in different countries. In this way, tests can be carried out with the public according to different styles of use and demands. A very useful element to know what each type of market requires when it comes to improving apps.