Sharing Libraries lets you share select photos from your library automatically to another approved person's library. The first is Google Lens, which makes use of computer vision to understand what's happening in a photo and then provide useful contextual actions.Ĭoming soon on #GooglePhotos, we're bringing more ways to share photos and hold onto the moments that matter most. At its I/O developer conference, Google showed off several Google Photos features that are too impressive to pass on. If Apple let me pick which photos app to save photos and videos directly - and it'll never give iOS users that kinda control - I probably would have left Apple Photos a long time ago.īut, it's not enough anymore. Thinking hard on why, I can only come up with one reason: Apple Photos connects directly to the iPhone's camera app. These are all kick-ass features that embarrass the crap out of Apple Photos, and yet weren't enough to force me to move the app to home screen four where my folder of non-removable Apple iPhone apps lives. On Android it fixes your stupid shaky videos. It has more granular editing features, including an auto-enhance feature that always makes my photos pop more than Apple Photos. Sometimes its Assistant (not to be confused with the Google Assistant) delights me by magically turning a turd photo into an beautiful one.
It knows how to turn a batch of burst photos into a GIF.
It automatically makes really cheesy, but fun-to-watch mini movies for me. Other reasons Google Photos is the bomb-diggity? Here's a list: Credit: screenshot: raymond wong/mashable Yo Apple, that's me, me, me, me, and ME again. It's by no means perfect, but it's really, really good - way better than face detection in Apple Photos which ID's me as five different people, for some reason: I'm constantly impressed by how spot-on the face detection is. By applying machine learning and advanced image recognition, Google Photos is able to intelligently and accurately identify people, places, and things. Search is another reason I'm head over heels for Google Photos.
If you really want to save your photos and videos at full resolution you can always pay for premium storage. My iPhone 7 only takes 12-megapixel photos and I almost never record videos in 4K, anyway. Sure, you've gotta be OK with photos being saved at a maximum of 16 megapixels and videos at full HD, but I'm fine with that. Pay for iCloud storage? No thanks, I'm too cheap.
Right off the bat, for the cost of zero dollars, Google Photos offers unlimited photo and video storage in the cloud. Let's start with storage, because that's one of its most attractive features.
I have a long list of reasons for why Google Photos is superior to Apple Photos.