Google Photos gets new features for its 10th birthday

Another Google product is now 10 years old, if you aren't feeling old yet. The search giant has introduced new features for its photo-sharing app to celebrate the occasion and shared several insights as well.

In a blog post, the company revealed that Google Photos now stores over 9 trillion photos and videos. The app is used by over 1.5 billion people every month, who make more than 370 million searches, edit 210 million photos, and share 440 million memories.

Google Photos has got a redesigned editor with, of course, AI baked in. It provides helpful suggestions and puts different editing tools in one place for easier access. You can find tools like Reimagine and Auto Frame alongside controls like brightness and contrast.

The revamped editor throws AI suggestions that combine multiple effects for quick edits. You can also tap on specific parts of an image to get suggestions to edit that area. It will roll out to Android users globally next month and to iOS devices later this year.

Another feature that is now rolling out is an improved sharing experience. You can share albums instantly by generating QR codes in the app. Other people can scan the QR code to view or add photos to the shared album. This builds on top of the existing experience on Google Photos, where users can generate a link to share albums with countless photos and videos at once.

Turning a few pages in tech history, Google Photos was introduced as a standalone app in 2015 and eventually became Google's primary photo management solution for Android users. It was a spin-off of the Photos feature in Google+, which was shut down in the same year.

Google Photos was available for Android, iOS, and web from the start, and took a cloud-first approach to help users free up their local storage. It automatically backed up and synced photos and videos to the cloud, making them available across other supported devices that the users had.

The search giant has previously made efforts to improve the sharing experience and media transfer to rival platforms. Moreover, Google promoted the app by offering unlimited original uploads with early Pixel devices and unlimited high-quality uploads for other users. AI-powered features began to appear on Google Photos in later years, including Magic Eraser, Magic Editor, Ask Photos assistant, and the ability to identify AI-generated photos.

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