Lately, Google Photos has been steadily testing new features and adding more. Although there haven’t been many recent upgrades, there are a ton of new features in the development pipeline that would allow Memories to be edited and customized. The user interface of the video editor may also get a makeover. Recent evidence of three new features in Photos—filters to make library management easier and Spotlight to make video editing easier—has been discovered by app researchers.
The Photos app, one of the standard gallery apps for Android that comes pre-installed from many OEMs, is feature-rich and provides the majority of the functions you’ll need to organize, edit, sort, and review your images and videos. But things have been getting hotter, and AssembleDebug, a Google app researcher at Android Authority on X (previously Twitter), is always up to date on the latest goings-on. Three forthcoming additions are hinted at in the app’s update to beta version 6.94.
The researcher was able to activate search filters first. Like with an email client or social networking app, the new Most recent and Best match filters should speed up image lookup. The most current option will display the most recent photos that match your search term at the top, but the accuracy of the results may suffer. The accuracy of the results is significantly increased by using the Best match filter, however the dates that the photos were taken in the tight grid view are not displayed.
You’ll realize the Google Photos editing tools aren’t as well polished as those found in a dedicated video editor if you use them to edit videos, particularly for social networking or fast posting. But photos can assist in condensing videos into brief segments that highlight the most important parts of a lengthy recording. Code strings found in the most recent beta version hint at a new preset-based Spotlight function that may be similar to the app’s Memories tab’s Video Spotlight feature. Nevertheless, unless witness this functionality in operation prior to a launch, many specifics are still unknown.
Additionally, flags to activate a floating comment area when browsing shared albums were implemented in this beta version. It is similar to the Reply field found in Google Photos image previews and status updates on WhatsApp. Commenting on albums might be more enjoyable with this floating bar, but as with other beta improvements, it’s impossible to predict when these additions will be made to a stable, useable version of the app.
