Google Photos rolls out ‘Rediscover This Day’ feature

According to Product Lead for Google Photos Search Chris Perry, the new toy will be called “Rediscover This Day”.

The latest update to Photos’ apps and Web interface brings in a feature using which users will be allowed to revisit photos and videos from the current calendar date in previous years. It offers free and unlimited online photo storage of photos, and comes with intuitive uploading software that pulls all of your pictures into the cloud.

Users will remember this concept from Facebook’s memories or Timehop, but the new iteration won’t bother you unless it can draw from a voluntarily uploaded collection of photos big enough to keep things interesting. Now Google is launching a similar feature for its Google Photos app, but instead of being just copy-paste, it will also try adding to the formula. The event featured demonstrations of Google’s Search, Maps, Photos, Translate and YouTube apps along with appearances from celebrities such as celebrity chef Kunal Kapur, fashion photographer Dabboo Ratnani and Anushka Menon and YouTube comedic sensation Karan Talwar.

An overview of recent offline features presented at the event included the ability to save Maps for times when one might not have a connection along with YouTube Offline, which gives a way to watch videos without chewing through all the mobile data, even in times when users do not have a connection. You can also share the same with whoever you want, however you want – whether that’s via email or a social network.

This unnamed feature is totally opt-in and it will work with not only the Photos app on Android and iOS, but through a desktop browser as well. The cards will also tell the users where they were and who they were with on that day. As Google angles to be the photo storing service of choice for millions of users, we may begin to see more fun features coming from the company’s Photos department.