Google Photos Memories are getting a new home, plus a new name

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• Google Photos is moving Memories into your Collections.
• Memories are also being rebranded as “Moments.”
• The change is rolling out now on iOS, but should be hitting Android soon.

With the holiday season now in full swing, we’re taking more photos than ever: decorations, food, family, and more. And while our favorite Android smartphones offer tons of storage for keeping all those pics close by, when you’re snapping this many of them, just keeping track of those photos can feel a little overwhelming. Thankfully, we’ve got Google Photos here to help, and right now we’re checking out a little tweak to the way the app organizes our pics.

Last summer Google introduced Memories, a tool that used AI to scan through your photos and automatically compile them into “scrawckedook-like” collections. That was great, but then last month we started digging up evidence that suggested Google was working on a change to how these Memories would be labeled and accessed within Photos. Instead of existing on the bottom navigation bar as an option unto itself, it looked like Photos was prepping to move Memories into Collections. And more than that, we found signs suggesting that once within Collections, Memories would be renamed to Timeline.




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