Google Photos introduces a scrapbook-style Memories view feature powered by AI.

Google Photos is launching a new way to relive and share your most memorable moments with the introduction of a new Memories view, launching today to U.S. users.
Google Photos introduces a scrapbook-style Memories view feature powered by AI.

Google Photos is launching a new way to relive and share your most memorable moments with the introduction of a new Memories view, launching today to U.S. users. The feature lets you save your favorite memories or create your own from scratch in order to build out a scrapbook-like timeline that includes things like your most memorable trips, celebrations, and daily moments with loved ones, the company says.

The addition builds on Google Photos' four-year-old Memories feature for recalling notable moments from your past via a carousel at the top of the Google Photos app. Today, this works something like a combination of Stories and Facebook Memories, allowing you to flip through favorite photos from past months and years. Google says that feature is now used by more than half a billion people monthly.

The new Memories view allows users to now do more with those favorite moments in a creative way. You’ll be able to add and remove specific photos from your Memories view — or even start a Memories view of your own, without relying on those photos already surfaced by the app. You can also rename the Memories view something of your own, instead of whatever more generic title Google Photos includes—like "Best of August 2013," for example.

The Google Labs Photos also features an experimental feature, which will recommend other titles created using generative AI. This can be found by clicking on the "Help me title" button. If you don't like what the AI recommends, you can edit those suggestions or guide them to something else by using an "Add hint" button. According to Google, feedback from users will improve AI over time.

However, the AI feature will only be available to select accounts in the U.S. for now.

Other than building out your own Memories timeline, you can also invite friends and family to collaborate on the Memories view you've created, adding their favorite photos and videos to the collection, just like you're doing with Shared Albums.

This can then be shared elsewhere on social media in a scrapbook-like timeline of photos and videos, and soon, as videos — an indication that Google has sharing to short-form video platforms like YouTube Shorts and TikTok in mind.

The feature is launching first in the U.S. and will expand to global markets in the months ahead.

 

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2024-11-28 19:59:02