Head of Google Photos confirms tons of upcoming features

You lot'll soon exist able to manually tag faces, share pictures of pets automatically and more

On Tuesday, product lead of Google Photos David Lieb asked Twitter users what features they desire and what bugs they're experiencing. He also shared some upcoming improvements to the platform.

Ane of the virtually requested features was the ability to tag a face manually, and to users' delight, Lieb confirmed that it was on the company'south to-do list.

Another feature Lieb mentioned to have been rolling out already, so some users might have it, is the ability to search for recently added pictures. While this sounds like a weird feature, it's mainly for users that might be uploading photos from their camera that are timestamped from the past and then they won't prove up at the top of the photos page. This feature has been bachelor on the web version of the platform since concluding August.

Some other date related modify that Lieb said is coming to Android is the ability to edit timestamps. Users tin already do this on the web and the iOS versions of Photos.

The 'Partner Sharing' feature that allows users to share pictures of specific people with their partner is existence expanded soon to include photographs of pets.

Another option that's in Photos for web merely not the Android app is the ability to delete photos when you're looking at them within of an album. Currently, you lot can just remove photos from the albums instead of actually deleting them from your library.

Ane Samsung-specific characteristic that users are asking for is for the Photos app to recognize screenshots on Galaxy phones. Currently, when you take a screenshot on a Samsung phone, it saves the epitome in a DCIM folder instead of the Pictures folder, resulting in the screenshots beingness uploaded to Photos similar a picture taken with the camera, according to Android Constabulary.

Unconfirmed features

Android Police also rounded up a few other features that users asked for but didn't get confirmed by Lieb.

Calculation pictures to a photo map inside the app and so users can hands see where they took the photos.
An piece of cake way to remove duplicate images.
The selection to choose whether or not your photos are uploaded to Google Drive.
The option to impress photos from your phone.
Controls to edit Google Assistant creations like 'Stylized photos,' or 'Colour Popular' images
The ability to back up photos without them actualization in the 'Photos' tab.

Source: David Lieb, Android Police force