Google is testing a much-needed new feature that will help prevent Google Photos from showing you content you’d rather not see.
According to a new report, Google Photos is preparing a new “show less” function that will let users hide specific faces from the platform’s automatically-generated “Memories” feature without untagging them from photos saved in the main photo library.
The new function provides a much-needed way of avoiding emotionally sensitive reminders of selected individuals while retaining the ability to search for them in your photo collection. A typical example would be when a loved one has recently passed away: You want to keep them tagged in your photos, but you don’t want to receive unexpected notifications containing videos and photos of them.
The feature, discovered by tipster AssembleDebug and revealed in a report by Android Authority, is not yet available to users, but the code already exists in the latest version of the Google Photos Android app.
According to the report, a new “Hide face from memories” menu item will appear in Google Photos when editing an individual from the “People and Pets” view. Tapping this will offer up two options: The first is the “Show less” feature detailed above, while the second, “Block face,” will additionally prevent that person from being tagged in photos with others.
Also likely to appear in a future Google Photos update is this new one-tap video enhancement feature, discovered by the same tipster.
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