• Google Photos Overview: The current Google Photos is not its first image management platform and has been highly successful. It remains one of Google's most popular products and is celebrating its 10th year with new features. It offers unlimited free storage for compressed images (until 2021), has over 1.5 billion monthly users, stores 9 trillion photos and videos, and has excellent search capabilities.
• AI in Google Photos: With Gemini, Google is integrating AI into most of its products. In Photos, the editor is getting a fresh dose of AI. It uses AI to make helpful suggestions for pics, redesigns the editor to put all tools in one place, and can suggest multiple edits at once. It also adds Reimagine and Auto Frame originally exclusive to the Pixel 9 series. Reimagine allows changing parts of an image with prompts, and Auto Frame adjusts framing and fills gaps.
• Album Sharing Update: Album sharing in Google Photos has been limited to URL links and contacts, used over 440 million times per month. In the new update, QR codes are added for album sharing, which can be displayed on the screen or printed.
• Release Timeline: The revamped editing update will come to Android devices in June, while iPhone users will have to wait until "later this year" for the new editing tools.