Google Photos is one of the best photo gallery apps you can download. It’s great, but the app’s settings UI was a major pain. Fortunately, Google is rolling out a revamp for the settings in Google Photos.
The key to any great app is a great user interface. When it comes to navigating your folders and content, managing your storage, editing photos, Etc., Google Photos has a very nice interface. However, it’s when you get to the settings that you start to see a major issue.
In order to find the setting you’re looking for, you’ll have to scroll through a long list of settings that seem to be haphazardly placed. It’s like scrolling through all of your Google Assistant settings in the Google app. With no search function, it can be tough finding that feature you’re looking for.
But, Google is going to revamp the settings in the Google Photos app
This is currently rolling out, so there’s a chance that you might already see it. Google is going to make searching for settings in Google Photos a lot less cumbersome. Thanks to several sources like Mishaal Rahman and Cătălin from Telegram (via Android Police), we know how the new interface is going to look.
For starters, Google brings some basic organization into the app settings. Rather than having all of the settings in a long list, they’re all going to be subdivided into different sections. These sections are Backup, Notifications, Preferences, Sharing, Apps & Devices, and Privacy. If you’re looking for a certain setting, then it’ll be easier to find because you are able to spot what category this setting is in. From there, you’ll simply locate the setting you want to change.
There’s another change coming
Aside from the settings getting an overhaul, Google Photos is bringing another useful change for people who like to manage their storage. When you move an item to the trash, Google will tell you how much storage you’re recovering by doing so.
In a screenshot, we see Google letting the user know that they will be getting back 4.5 megabytes of storage after deleting that file.