Google+ Photos replaces Google Messenger without notice

Google does not rest in summer and continues to improve and tweak its applicationsThis has been done with his social network, Google+, whose application for both Android and iPhone has been updated these past few days to improve its functions and integrate it with other tools such as Google Drive to make posting photos easier. However, it has also made other rather striking changes without giving any noticeSomething that will have caught the attention of users who have noticed the disappearanceappearance of the Google Messenger icon and the mysterious appearance of the applicationGoogle Photos+ We explain it below.

One of the important new features of this new version of Google+ is the replacement of the messaging service of the social network known as Google Messenger for the recent application Hangouts Issue that directly affects the Google Messenger icon that appears by default in the terminal when installing Google+ on the terminal. A kind of direct access to the messaging service of the social network which, after the update, loses all meaning, even more so when there is already aapplication Hangouts on platform Android

However, instead of just making it disappear, Google has decided to replace it with a new icon: Google Photos+ A tool that is not a new application itself, but rather a shortcut to Google+ itself, a redundancy that may not please all users. In this way, it is easier and faster to access the gallery of images and photos shared and published on the Google social networkA shortcut that changes messaging to photos.

Thus, just by pressing the icon Google Forums+ the user accesses the section Photos of which is actually the application of this social network Here it is possible to move between the different albums that the user owns and know what files have been published.It is even possible to click on any image and access the comments section to find out the evaluations of other users in their circles. Everything you would expect from the photo section of a social network.

The key issue is that the Android user does not have any power over this new icon that appears in the place of Google Messenger This is a shortcut that is installed and placed automatically after the last update of Google+ Therefore, the only way to make it disappear would be to uninstall the application from the social network itselfto which it is attached, but thus losing access to it and its features such as notifications and other related issues.

In short, a movement that the most active users will have noticedSomething that not everyone will see favorably, occupying the space of an application that could be more useful than a simple shortcut to the photos section of a social network The best thing would be for Google to give the user the opportunity to eliminate or place said icon It will be necessary to wait for future updates to see if this option arrives or not