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Google plans to make many of its enhanced editing tools -- tools powered by AI -- free to all Google Photos users next month.

Google announced this week that Photos is receiving two updates meant to improve organization and search, both of which are powered by AI.

iOS and web users of Google Photos can now access and set up locked folders -- a feature that was previously only available to Android users.

Google Photos is rolling out its redesigned web-based editor with new features to make photo editing on a Mac or PC easier.

Digital photography offers people many benefits over analog photography. Perhaps chief among them is the ability to capture a near-infinite number of photos and keep them together in one location. However, with such great power comes the monumental task of organizing thousands upon thousands of files.

Google Photos now has the ability to recognize people even if there is no face visible in the photo.

Google has announced it will delete a user's Google Photos if they have not logged into their account for two years.

Google is adding generative artificial intelligence (AI) into its Photos app in a feature called Magic Editor. In short, it allows users to completely change the content of their photos.

Google is experimenting with ways to make Google Photos' search function significantly more powerful.

Yesterday, Apple released iOS 16.3.1 which brought with it a few notable updates to iCloud performance, Siri, and FindMy, but it also appeared to break the Google Photos app for many users. Google was quick to address the problem, though, and a fix is available.

Google is changing how Photos estimates missing photo locations and will no longer use information from Location History for new photos and videos when camera location settings are turned off.

Google Photos is corrupting some older images stored on the service dating from 2013 to 2015, according to reports from users.

Google is making changes to Memories in Photos, which might be the biggest update the feature has seen since its launch. The redesigned Memories experience is designed to show more videos, feel more dynamic, and be sharable.

There’s a brand new feature in Google Photos that enables users to know how much space each image is taking up in the cloud. It’s located in the “backed up” category of the image’s metadata.

Google has announced that it is updating the layout of the Google Photos app to make it much easier to find specific photos in the library and sharing tabs.

Google has announced that the Google Photos app is getting expanded functionality for Portrait Blur, which will allow it to be used on many more subjects.

Google has begun to more widely roll out the Locked Folder feature, which allows Android users to locally store sensitive images and videos, that was previously only available on Pixel smartphones.

Google is expanding on its photo printing service by not only continuing its 10-print monthly subscription service but also allowing photos to be ordered in any volume and increasing the print sizes and types that are available.

An upcoming cloud-based Artificial Intelligent (AI) app for smartphones called Lensii claims that it will soon be able to assist users in organizing, sorting, searching, and choosing the best images from their collection of photographs.

I called the Google Photos photo sharing and management app the Turkey of the Year in my 2020 USA TODAY round-up of the apps and gadgets that screwed over consumers last year. Reason: Google Photos was free for all, but starting June 1st, it switches to a paid model after five years of bait and switch.

Google has announced updates to its suite of AI-powered features in an effort to make it easier to look back and find meaningful moments and memories while giving better control over what is relived.

Heads up: Google's unlimited uploads for high-quality photos is ending on June 1st, 2021. That means you only have a few weeks left to back up as many pictures as you can on the service before the new free storage limit kicks in.

While Google Photos has been the subject of some scrutiny since it announced it would be removing its unlimited "High Quality" free storage option, it's still a very popular service. Apple is making it easy to move from iCloud to Google Photos with a new free feature launched today.

As Google Photos transitions away from its free unlimited storage model, the company is starting to push users towards higher-paid tiers through disingenuous marketing. In a recent subscriber email, Google goes back on original promises and states "high quality" may not actually be high quality.

Jim Salter at Ars Technica decided to take a second look at Amazon Photos, a platform that has flown pretty under the radar since its launch in 2014. Now that Google Photos no longer offers free unlimited high-resolution storage, Salter decided to give Amazon a second try.

Google Photos is rolling out a new feature it is calling Memories, which lets viewers "relive the moments" from photos uploaded to the platform by transforming them into 3D cinematic images.

In November, Google announced that it was removing easy access to its unlimited photo storage option in Google Photos. Sensing blood in the water, Verizon has launched an unlimited storage option in its own competitor cloud service.

Google Photos has for some time asked users to verify its results for facial recognition or image content accuracy, but now the app is taking requests one step further: it's asking you to label all your images from scratch, not just verify results, to help train the algorithm.

Four strings of code have been found in Photos version 5.18 that seem to indicate that Google is planning to lock key editing features behind the Google One subscription paywall, melding access to the full service into Google's paid platform.

Google has unveiled a major update for the Google Photos app. The update adds two new AI-powered photo editing tools: a one-tap editing feature that tailors suggestions to your specific photo, and an intelligent 'Portrait Light' feature that lets you alter lighting post-capture.

If you're a Canon shooter who struggles with backing up your photos on a regular basis, you may be happy to know that there's a new integration with Google Photos that allows for automatic image backups over Wi-Fi.

Google is contacting a small percentage of Google Photos users to notify them that a bug in the company's "Takeout" system for downloading your data accidentally sent some users' private videos to random strangers. Oops...

Google announced today that it will be adding a private messaging feature to Google Photos, making it possible to share one-off images and video with friends and family without having to create a shared album or leave the app.

Facebook has released a new tool that'll allows you to bulk-export all of your photos and videos to another service or social network in just a couple of clicks, starting with Google Photos.

Google is rolling out a long-overdue feature to Google Photos: manual face tagging. The app now offers the ability to fill in tags for faces that it failed to identify.

Google is rolling out a powerful new feature to its Googles Photos app: you can now search for pictures by the text found within them.

Google has released an update to the Google Photos app for iOS that brings bokeh adjustment for Portrait mode photos.