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Google Photos – Recap and Other Related Yearly Insights

As mentioned, the Recap function brings your past year’s memories together to you and if the notification is turned on in Google Photos, you will be notified once it is ready. Apart from the Recap, insights like ‘Longest Streak'(longest photo streak of the year), ‘Year in Smiles'(number of smiles and with whom), ‘Your Top Faces'(all star cast moments), ‘Year in Color'(color palette of the year), and ‘Your 2024 Vibes'(top three personas) will also be provided. It must also be ensured that the Face Groups option is turned on and enough photos have been taken throughout the year.

These new collections of memories will be available to users starting today. If you are a web user, navigate to ‘photos.google.com’ and find these at the top of the web page. Android and iOS users will just have to open their Google Photos application, tap on ‘Photos’, and see it listed at the top. The Recap memory as well as the other related insights will be there at the top till the end of this month/year, and then, will be moved to the pinned memories under December.

To add, users can also receive enhanced Recap with Gemini, featuring personalized captions and highlighting two biggest memories of the year. If you are in the US and above 18 years old, the opt-in Gemini features on Google Photos (invite only) will be available to you. Enable it, and also Face Groups, estimated locations, and backup, on the latest version of Google Photos to receive enhanced Recap. However, it should be noted that this is an experimental feature and may not always turn out right.

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As always, you’re in control of your photos and privacy. We made it easier to find and adjust your privacy controls and other settings with a simplified and improved settings page in Google Photos. pic.twitter.com/HTPVy6RwbN

— Google Photos (@googlephotos) August 29, 2023

First of all, speaking about the enhanced Settings page in Google Photos, it is meant to make a user job easy to manage their privacy controls and other settings. The Settings page is now more simplified. You can access the privacy controls by going to the Privacy Settings page within the Settings page of Google Photos. You will then see the different privacy control options, which you can set up according to your needs.

Secondly, regarding the backup option for the Locked Folder, the Locked Folder is a passcode-protected space where you can hide your photos and videos. From now on, you will be able to back up these Locked Folders as well. Upon doing so, you can access these photos and videos from other devices as well. This option of backing up your Locked Folders to the Cloud, can also be set up and accessed on iOS devices and the web.

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This news has been reported by 9to5 Google in which it mentioned that some of the users visiting photos.google.com have started seeing a pop-up message. This message appears just below the “search your photos” in the blue box prompting users to “try a more powerful search”.

Then Google explains to users how they can locate an image using more detailed search phrases such as “colourful sunset” or “peaceful garden”. Now having a large library of photos makes it hard to access a photo when required but such a detailed search option will make it way more easier than it was ever before.

To appreciate this development made by Google you can go to the search bar to search for an image in Google Photos. Suppose you searched for a colorful sunset, undoubtedly it will still show you a sunset image from your library but sorted by the date whereas its new powerful search will sort images by relevance instead by date.

One more feature that will excite you the most is its search for the tagged faces. If you have tagged faces you will be able to search for the pictures with those people at certain locations such as “Charlie at the golden bridge”, and “Mark in the Park”.

A Google spokesperson confirming this update said to 9to5 Google is “always experimenting with new ways to help people find and relive their photos and videos. This experiment allows people to search for more complex queries to help them find the photos and videos they’re looking for more easily.”

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The latest version of Google Photos is now available on Android, version 5.28.0. With the help of this feature, On double-tapping, the video fills the screen in all edges. The pinch to zoom in and double-tap to zoom in or out makes it easier for users to have closer look on details in a video.

As of yet, it’s not available on iOS.

Since the feature seems to be a server-side update; Google is probably rolling it out in batches.

Google in recent days has introduced several new features in various of its platforms such as maps, A new Maps timeline feature on Google Photos, Cinematic photos, update on Gmail’s desktop icon.

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Prior to this, sharing pictures through the app was difficult. To do so, one had to make an album for a single photo and share the link.

Now, when you share one-off photos and videos, you will have the choice to add them to an ongoing, private conversation in the app.

“This gives you one place to find the moments you’ve shared with your friends and family and keep the conversation going,” Janvi Shah, Product Manager for Google Photos, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.

According to the company, this feature is not designed to replace the chat apps users already have, but it aims to upgrade sharing memories with one’s friends and family in Google Photos.

“You can like photos or comment in the conversation, and you can easily save these photos or videos to your own gallery,” Shah said.

“This is gradually rolling out over the next week and, as always, you can share these photos with your friends and family across all platforms — Android, iOS and the web — without any loss in image quality from the photos you backed up,” she said.

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