In the last few months, we have seen several changes to the Google Photos app, most of which are still in development. Googlerolled out Photo stacksin January, and we sawMemories get a new lookthe month before. It’s fun to see the photographs smartly collated in unique grid layouts, but sometimes, we wish Memories were generated more frequently. To address this concern, Google now seems to be hard at work creating a weekly highlights reel for you.
Memories are an auto-generated slideshow of photos and videos of events you celebrate, places you go to, and time you spend with people. Google recognizes these landmark moments, and makes it easy to relive them, even if you don’torganize your Photos gallery. Memories are shareable, and you can even exclude certain people and dates from them. The major downside of these Memories is that Google only creates them infrequently and unpredictably.
Interestingly, the perfect remedy could be in the works, becauseTheSpAndroidandAndroid Authorityboth report seeing code strings which hint at a new feature called My Week that’s currently in development.
Tell the story of your week with My Week
Set up My Week
Keep loved ones close with a photo journal of life’s little and big highlights
Invitees will get a memory in the Google Photos app to see each week with photos you pick.
Unfortunately, enabling the feature flags on a rooted device doesn’t help us discover the exact working of this feature, but the string descriptions are helpfully specific. It is likely Google will use this feature to automatically share photos from the previous week with a predefined set of contacts. The recipients should see these images and clips as Memories. However, it isn’t clear if they will appear in theMemoriestab of the app, or show up on top of the grid view of the photos they take on their devices.
Ideally, Google Photos will only suggest images to share instead of sharing them right away, giving you the option to deselect the ones which aren’t appropriate. However, his method of image sharing should make it very easy to share regular updates with friends and family you interact with regularly.
There’s no telling when Google will introduce My Week for the average Photos user, but we are looking forward to it, nonetheless.
