Google Photo App

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  Google Explains How Its Gemini Integration in Photos App Lets Users Find Photos With Prompts

  Nearly a year after unveiling its Ask Photos feature at the I/O developer conference in May 2024, Google has finally shed some light on how the feature will work. It was introduced as an extension for Google Photos which allows the on-device Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to access a user's images and answer queries about them.

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  Google Photos to Add SynthID AI Watermark to Images Enhanced With Magic Editor

  Google Photos is getting a new functionality that will allow people to check whether an image was enhanced using artificial intelligence (AI) or not. Images edited using Reimagine in Magic Editor will be labelled using SynthID, a watermarking technology by the Mountain View-based tech giant. The label can be viewed within the “About this image”...

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  Google Photos for Android Gets New Grid Customisations to Reduce Clutter

  Google Photos for Android is receiving a new feature that offers users greater control over their grid view preferences. Previously, users could adjust the layout density by selecting between "Day," "Month," or a "Comfortable" view, and they also had the option to stack similar photos. With the new update, users can now further refine their experi...

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  Google Photos for Android Adds Option to Flip Images; Dark Mode for Desktop Reportedly Rolled Out

  Google Photos for Android is rolling out a new functionality which lets users create mirror images, the company announced on Wednesday. It is added to the in-built editor and enables image flipping natively. The feature is speculated to prove useful especially when taking selfies with the Android phone’s front-facing camera where the text is usua...

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  Google Photos Developing Quick Edit Feature for Editing Media Before Sharing: Report

  Google Photos may be developing a new feature which lets users edit photos and videos quickly before sharing them, according to a report. The feature is dubbed Quick Edit and is said to enable quick photo editing by automatically enhancing it. Further, it is reported to also have cropping functionality.

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  Google Photos Rolls Out ‘Undo Device Backup’ Feature for Better Cloud Storage Management

  Google has introduced a new feature for its Photos app that aims to make deleting backed-up photos and videos easier. It was reportedly first spotted in June, with code strings of the Google Photos app hinting at a feature with similar functionality. The feature, dubbed ‘Undo Device Backup’, lets users remove media from the cloud storage space ...

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  Google Photos for iOS Redesign Removes ‘Memories’, Adds Moments Tab in Collections

  Google Photos has introduced a redesign for its app on the iOS platform which updates the bottom bar with fewer options than before. Its latest update brings functional changes including the removal of the ‘Memories’ tab from the app’s home page. It has been replaced by a new option which can be accessed by navigating to a sub-menu.

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  Google Messages Rolls Out Merged Camera and Gallery UI, Adds Image Quality Selection in Beta: Report

  Google Messages has rolled out a redesigned user interface (UI) for sending photos and videos via rich communication services (RCS) that merges the camera viewfinder and the gallery picker, according to a report. Instead of the combined view including the camera UI, up to four recent images, and the folders option, the viewfinder now takes up most ...

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  Google Chrome for iOS Receives Shopping Insights, Other New Features

  Google Chrome for iOS has rolled out several new features that aim to make finding information and completing tasks easier. The web browser now lets iPhone users add text queries to visual searches via Google Lens for more helpful and relevant results. It also introduces new ways to save space on iPhone, find better deals while shopping online, and...

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  Google's Quick Share App Now Available for Snapdragon X Elite, Other ARM Devices Running Windows 11

  Google has announced the silent rollout of its Quick Share app for ARM-powered devices running Windows 11 or later. Users can now easily send and receive photos, documents, and more data between nearby Android devices and ARM-based Windows PCs including the new Snapdragon X Elite laptops.

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  Google Photos App for Android and iOS Gets New Updates Page for Viewing Incoming Activity

  Google Photos app is rolling out a new feature that aims to make it easier for users to catch up on incoming activity. It appears as a new feed with options to see updates to shared albums, conversations, memory and storage. The feature has been released for the Google Photos app for both Android and iOS platforms and can be accessed from the home ...

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  Google Messages May Soon Allow Users to Send HD, HD+ Quality Photos Over RCS: Report

  Google Messages may soon allow users to send high-quality images over RCS. The feature is currently said to be available for certain beta users. It is similar to the HD image-sharing option that WhatsApp offers, where a user can choose to send an image in standard version with maximum compression or HD option with lesser compression.

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  Google Photos Will Now Add Labels to Images Edited Using AI Tools

  Google Photos announced the introduction of specific labels to highlight that an image has been edited using artificial intelligence (AI) tools on Thursday. The Mountain View-based tech giant will start including this information within the metadata of the images to let anyone easily check whether the image was made using synthetic methods. Apart f...

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  Canva Dream Lab AI Image Generator Launched; Visual Suite Updated With New Features

  Canva announced a new text-to-image artificial intelligence (AI) generation tool and added several new features to its Visual Suite on Wednesday. The Sydney-based visual communications platform introduced AI image generator Dream Lab, a platform that was built on the tech stack of Leonardo.Ai, just three months after it was acquired. Additionally, ...

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  Google Photos Could Reportedly Show AI Image Credits to Protect Users From Instances of Deepfakes

  Google Photos is reportedly adding a new functionality that will allow users to check whether an image was generated or enhanced using artificial intelligence (AI) or not. As per the report, the photo and video sharing and storage service is getting new ID resource tags which will reveal the AI info of the image as well as the digital source type.