Google is testing one other highly effective Google Pictures improve.
Google is testing out an all-new ‘Reminiscences’-based house web page characteristic within the Google Pictures app, in response to a brand new report — and it’s a characteristic that I feel may revolutionize the way in which folks use the app.
The brand new characteristic, revealed by tipster Nail Sadykov of the unofficial, however in style, Google Information Telegram group, consists of screenshots of an up to date interface that features a new slider close to the underside of the display screen.
Transferring the slider from ‘All images’ to ‘Reminiscences’ switches from the common timeline-based view into one which teams collectively images in response to themes and occasions as a substitute. Examples given are ‘Journey to Kuluschi’ and ‘Below the Christmas tree’, every offered as a collage of picture thumbnails in numerous styles and sizes. Titles are robotically generated however might be modified by tapping a brand new ‘Edit’ button alongside the feed.
In keeping with the report, tapping on a collage will open it full-screen, in the identical means as if it had been opened from the carousel of Reminiscences on the prime of the common feed. Sadly, the brand new characteristic is at the moment solely an experiment and it’s unknown when, or if, it will likely be made accessible to all customers.
Google check a brand new ‘Reminiscences’ feed within the Google Pictures app.
If Google does roll out this replace, and personally I hope it does, then it’s going to open up an entire new means of utilizing the app. Whereas Google Pictures does a great job of surfacing attention-grabbing content material through the Reminiscences characteristic, scrolling by way of the principle chronological feed merely provides you each single picture and video you’ve saved. This will get boring in a short time — I don’t think about many individuals really feel compelled to select up their telephone to scroll again by way of the Google Pictures timeline.
Then again, a curated feed containing solely your most attention-grabbing pictures would certainly show way more participating, particularly when delivered in a format acquainted to anybody used to scrolling by way of posts on social media. I can think about future customers turning to Google Pictures to whereas away an idle second in a means that merely doesn’t make sense at present.
For now, we’ll simply have to attend and see the place Google takes this concept.
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