

In addition, under Advanced Settings, you can specify the types of creations you'll see in your Memories, like animations, cinematic photos and collages, by toggling on or off. You can choose dates going back as far as 1970. Tap Add Dates, and Google Photos won't show any more memories or creations in that time frame. If you'd rather not be reminded of a specific time period, you can choose Hide Dates. Simply tap on a person's photo to keep them out of your Memories and creations. But deleting an image is still an option. If you scroll through Photo View, there's still a chance you could come across an unwanted image. Unfortunately - at least for now- this will only hide the subject as they'd appear in memories or creations. Anyone that you no longer wish to see in memories or creations, simply tap the image and a little hidden eye icon will appear overtop of it. If you choose Hide People and Pets, Google Photos will show the People and Pets grid. Tap the Settings icon.įrom there, you can get pretty specific about what images you want or don't want to see. If you tap one of the creations, you'll see options in the bottom right to favorite an image, share it or further interact with settings. Above Photo View, you should see Story-style creations like Spotlight, Recent Highlights, One Year Ago and more.Ģ. Here's how to customize your Google Photos to hide potentially painful or unwanted memories:ġ. Google Photos uses AI to generate "cinematic moments" that create a moving image from two related shots. The move comes alongside other updated Photos features that Google announced at its I/O developers conference last May, including AI-based cinematic photo, and a more accurate camera that adjusts the auto white balance to better represent natural brown skin tones for a more inclusive skin tone dataset. "We specifically heard from the transgender community that resurfacing certain photos is painful, so we've been working with our partners at GLAAD and listening to feedback to make reminiscing more inclusive," the post said. Read more: Google Photos is ending unlimited free storage. Providing more control over whether or not they want to revisit memories also makes for a more inclusive experience for transgender users, Google said in a blog post. Now, Google has added a new tool that lets you remove photos from Memories. While it can be fun to look back and reminisce on certain events, not all memories are ones you'd necessarily want to relive - like a painful breakup, the loss of a loved one or the beginning of the pandemic. If you use Google Photos, you're probably familiar with the Memories feature, which resurfaces photos from the same date in previous years. Google Photos now has a way to filter its story-like Memories feature for reliving older events.
