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Google Photos' upcoming image sharing feature gets a new UI ahead of launch (APK teardown)
- Google is still making changes to the UI of an upcoming Google Photos feature that will let users enhance photos before sharing them.
- The new UI is more straightforward and features a toggle to enhance images automatically.
- It also allows for cropping and other necessary adjustments before sharing.
Google Photos is preparing a new feature that will let you enhance images before sharing. We’ve been following the development of this feature for a while now. In case you missed our previous coverage, you can head here to read more details about the new Enhance Photo sharing option coming to the Photos app. Today, we’re looking at yet another change Google is making to the upcoming feature. It seems Google is still fine-tuning how photo enhancements would work, and the feature now has an entirely new UI compared to what we showed you just a few weeks back.
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Thanks to Android Authority contributor Assemble Debug, we now have another look at how Google Photos will apply the new Enhance Photo feature. The new UI is simpler and features a toggle to enhance images automatically. In the previous release, the preview window had a carousel with three filters: “Enhance,” “Warm,” and “Cool.” The “Warm” and “Cool” filters have been removed now, with just the “Enhance” option remaining.
As you can see in the video demo above, toggling on “Enhance” makes the image more vibrant. Toggling it off displays the original image again. This makes it much more intuitive to see the difference between the enhanced and original photo. Previously, you had to tap and hold on the preview to see the original image. Google has also added options for cropping, rotating, flipping, and making other adjustments to the image before it is shared.
We may see some more tweaks in future Google Photos releases before the feature is finally ready for primetime. We’ll keep you posted on any other changes or if the feature goes live.