- In addition to making room for more gemini, Google has updated its photo and video sharing service
- One of the new features includes Google Photos -Integration in the Gemini app
- While one of the features is still a rumor we hope it will be rolled out soon
It’s a busy and definitely an interesting time for Google at the moment and it’s not just because Gemini is slowly taking over. While the company doubles on Gemini’s integration across the board of directors of its services, it takes time to seriously upgrade other platforms under its wide umbrella – Google photos are one of them.
Like Google messages have tested some useful upgrades, the company has not forgotten its photo sharing and storage software, which has also received its reasonable proportion of updates and new features, large and small. Two of them are very recent rollouts for Google, and while the third is just a speculation right now, we hope to see that it will be performing in the near future.
Google photos get gemini -integration on Android
In October 2024, Google photos rolled out ‘Ask Photos’, an AI search tool driven by Gemini that allows you to use natural language questions to filter through your gallery in the photo app. With this new integration, Android users will be able to connect it to Google photos and find photos inside the Gemini app itself.
According to 9to5Google there are two pages for this new integration, the first one allows you to find images and videos based on the following:
- Your hidden faces and relationships on Google photos
- The location / date a photo / video was taken on
- A description of what’s on a photo
- Conversation with the Gemini app
For example, you can use requests such as ‘Find my photos of Alex’, ‘Show me recent selfies’ and ‘Show my photos from my latest trip’. The second part allows you to ask about specific details on your photos and videos, such as ‘What are the top 10 things we saw on our last trip?’ – Looks like the ASK Photos feature in the Google Photos app.
Dark Mode to Google Photos’ Web version
Whether you use Google Photos or not, you are probably using Dark Mode settings on other platforms -for me it is always turned on when using YouTube or Tiktok. For a while, Dark Mode was exclusive to Google Photos Mobile app, but just a few weeks ago Google finally brought it to the web version.
It’s a small upgrade to Google photos, but one that will be very popular with users with certainty. You can activate dark mode to Google photos on the web very easily:
- Go to photos.google.com in your web browser
- Click Settings and then go into the section of the
- From there you can choose your choice from different settings including light, dark or use device standard
Google -Photos tilted for a large redesign
While this is still speculated, it can be a great design overhaul and one that can make control of your photo library a little smoother.
We first discovered this a few weeks back after a leak that was shared by Android Authority, which pointed to possible changes we could see in the future, one of which shows that the ‘today’ headline no longer has a checkmark next to it, but with what looks like a filter icon instead. In addition, the leak shows a floating search box instead of the usual photo collections and search tabs.
