Google Photos is the company’s flagship product that offers tons of new features. This includes the ability to turn photos into videos and much more. For a while, the app offered a feature called Face Groups, which groups similar faces. This creates albums of all your pictures of any given person or pet. Today, Google Photos is making it easier to find pictures of people/pets by directly integrating Face Groups into the app’s search functions.
Google Photos integrates Face Groups shortcuts into the app’s search
Google has silently announced the feature in a help forum post. Both Ask Photos and the app’s “classic” search on Android, iPhone, and iPad will display a row of faces. This is only if you have Face Groups enabled. Tapping any of the pictures in that row will take you to all the photos you have of that person/pet.
Google notes that this update will allow you to “locate your top face groups and find the photos that you’re looking for more easily.” A glimpse of this reportedly made headlines back in June, and it is now rolling out widely.
This makes searching for pictures of people and pets easier
The new Face Groups integration apparently works a bit differently depending on the type of search function that users have access to. In Ask Photos, the new row of faces doesn’t appear on the Ask tab until you tap the search bar. Meanwhile, on the older Search tab, the new shortcuts will reportedly appear right away near the top of the screen.
Google Photos already allows you to search for pictures by any person you’ve assigned a name to from the search bar. But the new Face Groups shortcuts make it convenient and also speed things up. It actually makes sense to be integrated into the search interface. You should start seeing the new shortcuts on your devices from today.
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