Google Photos Simplifies Sharing

Users can now select the photos they want to share to their friends, and the app will automatically bring up a list of contacts regardless if they have the app installed, making it easier to share content to anyone seamlessly.

Apart from the Google Search app, which is known for its sporadic updates in Windows, there are not many apps directly released by Google for the Windows platform. If you simply wanted to share a photo with somebody, though, you had to email it to them or send it through some other Google or third-party app.

If the people selected are on Google Photos they get a notification. Google says that they’re “the kinds of movies you might make yourself, if you just had the time”.

The sharing options are improving, because Google recognises that not everyone uses Google Photos.

The new faster sharing feature in Google Photos adopts the more “natural” way of sharing. I love my daughter a lot, and I’m not afraid to admit that sometimes I get a little choked up when I look back at some of our precious memories.

Google Photos just announced two new features. Google Photos is available on Android, iOS and the web. Google Photos has always made movies for you using your recently uploaded photos. Until now, though, the system that built those movies mostly used time and location (as well as some image recognition tools) as markers for which photos to include. Google says it’s trialing more of these advanced creations – it specifically names commemorating “good times” and “formal events” – and they’ll be hitting the app soon.

More concepts will be added, for example, “Summer of Smiles” coming on Thursday, will stitch together all your best moments from the summer; and “Special Day” will create a movie from photos of recent weddings, birthdays, and other celebratory days.

The update also introduces “creative concepts” for the short movies the Assistant in the app helps create.