The big development for Google Photos in the past year is the Gemini-powered “Ask Photos,” but that shouldn’t overshadow a series of redesigns that feels like it concluded with the simplified bottom bar that rolled out earlier this week.
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Compared to where we were at the start of 2024, navigating the Google Photos app — all three tabs and beyond — feels quite different a year later.
In the Photos tab, the goal this past year has been to reduce clutter from auto-grouping Stacks (for pictures that are visually similar) to choosing whether you want to see “content from other apps.” The latter lets…