Google made a fairly substantial update of the Google Photos app this week. The upgraded version, which is at 1.8, enhances the face grouping feature of the cloud storage service and expanding it to more countries, reported 9to5Google.
The app now allows private labelling and categorizing files of images since last month, but only in the United States. Google Photos version 1.8 makes the feature available in Latin America, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, as well as part of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Google Photos version 1.8 likewise brings "spooky" performance, just in time for the Halloween, pinching to zoom when looking at search results and bug fixes.
Overall, the app for photos gives users the capability to organize and manage thousands of taken photos on file to be able to privately label the people in the photos so that searching for them will be quick and easy.
There might be cases that a user wants to hide people he does not want to see in his photo collection. Google seems to anticipate the need for this because with Google Photos version 1.8, it allows hiding people from the "People" section.
The app does not hide any photo, just during the sorting of the said people's face, flagged to the user who wants them concealed. Hiding a person from the "People" section prevents events with such person from showing in the Photos Assistant's "Rediscover this day" cards.
To hide certain people, the user just needs to hit the Search button, the magnifying glass in the display's lower right-hand portion. Inside search, the People section shows. Tapping the circle in a face' corner means the user no longer wants to see it labelled. Then, Hide should be tapped. "Hiding" a person's face tells the app not to show a section in Search dedicated to that specific person.
Google Photos version 1.8 is available for free in the Google Play store. Otherwise, it can be downloaded through the Android Application Package, said Slash Gear. The tech site said there is no guarantee though of the safety of any app downloaded other than from the Play Store.
