- Google Photos has announced it is rolling out several new features including a Stories-like feature called Memories
Shimrit Ben-Yair, the senior director of Google Photos, announced several new features for the photo storage service. These new features help users relive the moments that matter.
Now you will see photos and videos from previous years at the top of your gallery in a new feature called Memories. The Memories feature is in the same Stories format popularized by Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. The Memories are privately presented to you when at the top of the Google Photos app.
Google Photos uses machine learning to curate what appears in Memories so that you do not have to parse through many duplicate shots. There may be certain times that you do not want to revisit so you can hide certain people or time periods. Or you can turn off the Memories feature altogether.
In the next few months, Google Photos will add the ability to send photos directly to your friends or family within the app. Those photos will now be added to an ongoing private conversation so that there is one place to find the photos that you have shared with each other.
Google Photos already offers the ability to print your memories into a photo book. But now you can easily print individual 4×6 photo prints directly from Google Photos and pick it up the same day at CVS Pharmacy or Walmart at over 11,000 locations with print centers across the U.S.
And Google Photos is also now offering canvas prints from Google Photos in the U.S. that will be delivered straight to your home. Google Photos will provide suggestions for the best photos to print on canvas. The canvas prints start at $19.99 and come in three different sizes: 8×8, 11×14, and 16×20.
Google Photos also now has the ability to search for text in photos. For example, you can take photos from a recipe book and then search for the ingredients for it later.
