One of the new features coming to Google Photos is the ability to remove the estimated location from photos, and the other is to make it easier to find similar faces. However, Google Photos has long been able to estimate the location of photos that do not contain geodata. But now they are giving users the option to remove this estimate.
Until now, the app used Location History to estimate missing locations on images, which is "an optional Google Account setting that stores where you go with your devices so you can enjoy personalized maps, recommendations, and more." The tool estimated the missing places in the photos in one more way, namely by recognizing visible landmarks.
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Google now he announced, that the app has stopped using Location History for new photos and videos and is instead "investing more in our ability to identify landmarks" (perhaps referring to Map Live View, Google Lens, or the Visual Positioning Service) .
As a result of this change, the software giant allows users to delete all estimated photo locations, including those derived from Location History and Landmarks. Over the coming months, a prompt will appear in Photos to allow users to "keep" or "delete" location estimates. They will have until May 1 next year to make a decision, otherwise they will be automatically removed. But Google assures that no photos will be deleted as part of this change.
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The second innovation that Google brings to Photos is the replacement of the Lens button, which until now allowed you to scan your photos and search for similar results on the Internet, with the Search button. As reported by the website Android Police, for some users the app stopped showing the Lens button and instead there is a "normal" photo search button. Using this button on face images allows the face user to tag and find face tagged photos in their image gallery.
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For regular Photos users, the new image search button might be quite useful to help refresh their memory with related images, but if they use Lens quite often, they might have to adjust a bit. Apparently, only a limited number of users have received the new button so far, and it is not clear when others will receive it. However, they probably won't wait long.
And when will the "essential" function of "duplicity" come to photos, i.e. search and work/removal of duplicate photos? When a person has Android a iPhone and both sync, it's quite confusing 😀
Apple v iOS Fotokách has also now introduced this function (surprisingly, he didn't have this "basic" function until recently either).
So they brag about irreversibly damaging the photos! That's power! A photo without geodata has only a fraction of the original value, because I often don't remember the location for each photo