Chapter 15

Ten Extra Google Photos Features

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Viewing the Memories carousel

Bullet Creating screenshots

Bullet Clearing the clutter

Bullet Accessing your metadata

Bullet Searching with Google Lens

The Google Photos app has a few more surprises that add to all the tools that you can discover in earlier chapters. The following ten extra features and tools are my favorites, and I know that you will benefit from them as much as I do!

Viewing the Memories Carousel

The Memories carousel contains a few auto-generated albums that the Google Photos app thinks might interest you. Figure 15-1 shows my Google Photos app, with automatically generated albums called In the Woods and Recent Highlights. In your own Google Photos app you see the Memories carousel within the Photos section, at the top of the screen.

The In the Woods album contains all the photos and videos that I’ve taken of various forests, trees, and hikes in the woods. Google’s artificial intelligence software scanned my photo and video collection ...

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