Google Photos will allow you to manually tag other people

Although Google Photos arrived as the photo album we all needed in the cloud, it still has a lot of room for improvement. They know it at Google, and proof of this is that the product manager of this photography service asked via Twitter what users would like to see nextThanks to this, we now know a few functions that they are working on and that they will arrive soon to make it more comfortable to order all our photos.

One of the news that David Lieb, the aforementioned Google Photos product manager, confirmed on Twitter was that manual tagging is in the team roadmap for this service. In this way, soon, we will be able to choose the face of someone who appears in one of our photos and say who it is. Something that until now is done automatically in the application, but without us being able to add it in case it doesn't. In fact, we can only manually remove a tag that is wrong. So this feature will allow us to sort the photos even better. But there is more.

Along with this, and about to reach mobile users, would be the ability to search and edit photos recently uploaded to Google PhotosAnd it is that, in this way, we can move around and quickly find the photos of a trip from years ago that we have just uploaded, without getting lost in the gallery.Something that was only available in the web version of Google Photos. In addition to this, and also inherited from the web version, the ability to edit dates in photos will come to Android. Issue that is present for iPhone.

Hi Twitter! It's no-meetings week at @googlephotos and I've got a couple hours free. Tell me what you want to see next from Google Photos! New features, bug fixes, performance improvements, you name it. (No promises but very open minds!)

- David Lieb (@dflieb) July 2, 2019

Other features on the way

David Lieb's Twitter conversation with Google Photos users led to much more. And it is that now we know many more issues in which they are already working. For example, you can delete photos from the library even though they're in an album, even mark them as favorites or like them. Something that could not be done on Android directly from the gallery, but from the album in which they were.

What is not so clear is if in the end the Google Photos engineering team will change, modify, create or delete the rest of the requests that were made during the thread on Twitter. Of course, in Android Police they have collected the list of requests to, at least, know that Google has listened to the users. Will they finally reach Google Photos? So far we only know that they were mentioned, but these features are not, presumably or officially, among the team's priorities.

We're talking about functions like view photos on the map to know where they were taken, delete duplicate photos, sync with Google space Drive, print photos locally, display photo information in slideshows, have finer controls for what this app's assistant can do automatically, be launched from a photo in the album up to the date it was taken from the gallery or even suggest to delete blurry photos.

In short, many ideas and pending work for the Google Photos team. And it is that the users do not seem willing to be satisfied All this being a free and unlimited service, with a payment method only for those who want to keep their memories with all the native resolution. For the moment, we will have to be attentive to the most basic functions that must be corrected and added so that all the platforms on which the service can be used have the same possibilities. Then we can expect these and other additions in the future.