Here Are All The New Things You Can Do With Google Photos

Today, at Google's I/O developer conference, the company announced a number of updates for Google Photos — with shared libraries, suggested sharing, photo books, and an integration with Google Lens being the biggest announcements.

The app — which currently boasts 500 million users just two years after its launch — offers photo storage and management for iOS, Android, and the web, and allows users to upload unlimited images (though the size of the individual photos is capped if you don't have a Pixel) for free. The app also leverages Google's AI technology to recognize faces, images, and places, so that users can search their libraries things like “Mom,” “lakes,” or, as demonstrated by Google VP of photos Anil Sabharwal during the I/O keynote, “Anil pineapple Hawaii.”

Suggested sharing

Suggested Sharing will use Google's artificial intelligence to pick your best photos, determine who's in them, and then suggest you share them with those people. After you've shared the photos, the app will identify related photos, whether that's by the location where they were taken or the people in them, for you to continue sharing.

Shared libraries

With shared libraries, you can now share a library with another Google user, and have photos with certain people in them automatically uploaded to the new library. Onstage, Sabharwal created a new album with his wife and set it up so that photos from each of their libraries of her and their kids to would upload to the shared collection.

He took a selfie with a cardboard cutout of his kids, which Google Photos recognized to add an image to the library. The feature resembles the Shared Albums feature within Apple's iOS Photos app, but Apple's version does not identify people within the photos and doesn't enable automatic sharing.

Photo books

Google announced a shopping update to Google Photos that resembles the service Shutterfly: you can now buy physical books — hardcover for $19.99 or soft for $9.99 — within Google Photos. The app can select photos for a possible book in the same way that the Suggested Sharing feature identifies the best photos from your collection and offers them to you.

Google debuted a hardcover book onstage and offered a free one to all attendees at I/O

Integration with Google Lens

Finally, Google's AI-powered touchup feature Google Lens will now integrate with Google Photos, allowing you to enhance the photos in your library remove obstructing objects from them.

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Here's Everything You Need To Know About Android O

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Google's latest software update, Android 8.0, also called Android O, is packed with small – but meaningful – updates, and is slated to roll out to devices starting this fall.

Google’s own Pixel and Nexus phones will be the first to get the new system and, after that, it’ll be up to phone makers, like Samsung, Motorola, and LG, to support Android O.

There are two main themes to the update: “fluid experiences,” or optimizing small screen experiences, and “vitals,” or increasing the device’s battery and performance.

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Android O is opening picture-in-picture support to all third-party video apps, not just YouTube. You’ll be able to see Maps navigation, Netflix, and other app windows on top of another app. So, for example, you can watch a DIY video on YouTube and take notes in the Notes app.

Developers can now implement auto-fill into their own apps. If users have their password and username saved in Google, then, after opting in and opening an app, their credentials will be filled automatically.

New “notification badges” are designed to draw attention apps with new activity. In the on-stage demo, Instagram's app showed a little dot on the homescreen when the user received a comment on their photo.

The new system also cuts down with annoying text-selection fiddling. If you double tap text to select an address, it’ll automatically select the entire address, without you having to adjust the text. It also works with phone numbers, email address, and places. Google calls it “smart text selection.”

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“Vitals,” meanwhile, refers to the optimization battery, performance, and security. Google is using machine learning to scan 50 billion apps for harmful or malicious software in the Play store. “Google Play Protect” is a similar software available for consumers.

Google also announced twice-as-fast boot time for apps and “wise limits,” which will put limits on how much apps can run in the background (but allow overrides for those who want to do so) to protect battery life and free up memory.

One of the biggest changes you’ll see is in the Settings page. It’s much shorter, with less categories than before. The battery and storage pages have been redesigned to be more readable. You can customize the lock screen even more, by changing the bottom corners from camera and voice assist to instead open whatever app you want with a quick swipe.

There are more features hidden in the notification shade, too. Long pressing a notification will prompt an option to disable all future notifications from that app, and sliding it to the right will let you snooze notifications from the app for a period of time.

In the “Quick Settings” window, an underline denotes that you’ll be able to manage that item’s settings right from the window. If not, tapping that icon will take you to the Settings app.

In addition to the Android O update, Google announced Android Go, that's essentially a version of the OS, core apps, and Play Store optimized for entry level device with 1 gigabyte or less of memory. The system is designed to run smoothly on phones primarily in developing countries coming online for the first time.

Earlier this month, Google also announced Project Treble, a program designed to make it easier for carriers and phone to update to the latest system of Android, which is usually a time consuming and expensive endeavor. The program should also make non-Google Android phones, which many experts have deemed unsecure, much safer by distributing patches for critical security bugs to more devices, faster.

There’s a preview available today at android.com/beta.

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