The current Incarnation of Google photos was not the first platform for image management of Google, but it was a great success. Ten years later, Google photos remains one of Google's most popular products and gets a few new functions to celebrate its 10th year. You can share albums a little easier, and editing tools get a boost with, you guessed it, ai.
Google Photos made a splash in 2015 when it was free from the spiral Google+ social network and people supposedly offer unlimited free storage for compressed images. That was of course too good to last a long time. In 2021, Google started to limit the photo -uploads to 15 GB for free users, where the standard storage at account level with other services such as Gmail and Drive was shared. Nowadays, Google encourages everyone to pay for a Google One subscription to get more space, which is a bit of a bummer. Anyway, people still use Google photos extensively.
According to the company, photos have more than 1.5 billion monthly users and it saves more than 9 trillion photos and videos. When you use the app photos on a telephone, you will be asked to automatically upload your camera roll, making it easy to keep all your memories a backup (and Edge increasingly closer to the free storage limit). Photos have also offered almost magical search options for a long time, so that you can search for the content of images to find them. That may seem less impressive now, but it was revolutionary ten years ago. Google says that users perform more than 370 million searches on photos every month.
An AI anniversary
Google is locked up with AI because it again represents most products and services with Gemini. Because it renews photos for his 10th birthday, the editor gets a new dose AI. And this can end in one of the most used AI functions from Google – More than 210 million images are edited in photos every month.
