Google Photos rolls out shared albums

Using Google’s search algorithm, users can search for words in their photos like “dog” or “graduation”. Google stated it would be released before the end of the year and today we see the official announcement. The new shared albums feature works with a web browser on a computer, iOS, and Android devices. It’s the ideal way to share photos with a select group – without necessarily putting them on social media for everyone to see.

With shared albums you get the simple sharing that you have always enjoyed with Google Photos, only in album format that friends and family can join and contribute to. Whether they are on Google+ or not. Now Google is beefing up Photos with shared albums, which is pretty much what it sounds like.

“With today’s launch, you can now make the albums you send collaborative“. For instance, if you went to Thanksgiving last month and all the family was there, it’s likely that many others took pictures that you didn’t get.

From then on, everyone who is a member of the album will receive alerts when new items have been added. The problem here lies in the aftermath, where everyone took pictures but no one has an easy way to share them. The May update let you share links to albums via SMS, email, and messaging apps, but now the albums are truly collaborative. Similar to the way Facebook and other photo programs can recognize a person’s face, Google’s product can even recognize the age progression of the same person. Whether that be on the web, Android or iOS, the process is the same.