Google Photos Archives

Google Photos Major Update Includes New Map View, Layout Changes, and New Icon (Update: Now Live!)

Tim June 29, 2020 37

Google announced a massive Google Photos update this morning, packing in not just a new look for the service, but new features, too. Update (6/29): Google is now rolling this update out, as I can confirm that both Kellen and I have received the new UI. Check...

Google Photos Ends Trial of $8/Month Print Subscription Service

Tim June 18, 2020 18

Back in February, Google Photos launched the ability to subscribe to a $8/month printing service that would send you physical pictures once a month, taken from your Photos library. The service was launched as a trial, and according to a message sent out to...

Google Intros New Album Sharing Functionality for Google Photos

Tim May 19, 2020

Google is rolling out a new default option when sharing an album inside of Google Photos this week. Now, when sharing an album, Photos will recommend contacts to share your albums with, while also still offering direct links for those who don't use Google...

Google Wants You to Pay $8/Month for Auto-Printed Photos

Tim February 3, 2020

Google Photos is currently trialing a new subscription service in the US, where users pay a monthly fee and Google goes ahead and automatically prints out your best photos and ships them to you in a little cardboard envelope. You can do whatever you want with...

Pixel Phones are Getting a Bunch of New Features

Kellen December 9, 2019

Google announced that its Pixel phones are getting the first ever "Pixel feature drop" this week, which is mostly Google saying that a batch of new features are coming to your phone. The first "feature drop" brings new features to the Pixel 4, Pixel 3, Pixel...

Google Creates New Messaging Service, This Time Within Google Photos

Kellen December 3, 2019

Remember when Google built a special, stand-alone messaging/sharing experience into YouTube only to kill it 2 years later? They are making that same play today within Google Photos. Google Photos is getting an update that allows you to have private...

You’ll Soon be Able to Transfer Photos, Videos From Facebook Directly to Google Photos

Tim December 2, 2019

Because no one would blame you if you want to completely ditch Facebook these days, an upcoming tool (developed by Facebook), will allow you to quickly transfer all of your photos and videos from Facebook's servers into your Google Photos account. Currently,...

Google Photos Gets Manual Face Tagging

Tim November 27, 2019

Before this week's update, Google Photos liked to tag faces all on its own in your People & Pets album. For the most part, it does a fine job at correctly identifying people in your life, but sometimes, the system doesn't work. For example, I have baby...