Google Photos launches albums by face in Europe
It's been a while, but it's finally here. Or at least it is coming. We talked about the possibility of creating personalized albums with all our photos from Google Photos. Or rather those of our friends and family. Something that helps to find photos of a specific person by being automatically recognized by the photo service to group the images in which they appear.
The feature was unveiled no more and no less than in 2015, when it was activated for some regions.However, the rest of the world was left out of this extra service. Waiting for Google to activate it. Well, from now on European users of Google Photos will be able to locate their friends and family in their respective albums
Side groupings work automatically. Google is in charge of scanning your photos and recognizing the patterns of faces in them In this way, and without us having to do anything, it creates albums around faces that appear repeatedly in our photo gallery. This makes it easier for us to find that photo of your cousin Maripili, the one from the town, without having to browse the entire collection of snapshots or having to remember the date of the photo. A search for Maripili or in the Browse Faces section shows us all the photos we have of her. Most convenient.
Of course, for that there is Google looks at all our photos one by one Of course, neither the albums nor the information collected is shared when you send a photograph with faces on it. Everything is designed to make it more comfortable for you to find photographs of one person or another. Also, if you prefer, you can deactivate this function from the Google Photos settings, which would delete the facial models recognized by Google to group photos of your close people.
Now, the fact that the function reaches Europe does not mean that we will see it directly in Spain and already available on our Android phones. Apparently, and as Google likes, the feature would be showing in a staggered manner So we will have to be patient if, for the moment, we review our application of Google Photos without us seeing any loophole of this new function.Just check if, in the Albums section, a new section of faces appears. If not, it will be time to continue waiting.
Info via Engadget
