When Google created Google photos 10 years ago I was sure that I did not expect this service to become the success that is today. Not all the company’s proposals are successful, as evidenced by the list of buried projects, but some are brutally, as is the case. In Spain it is normal to see many people use Google photos as its gallery application simply because it is the one that is installed by default in its mobiles.
This project began with a groundbreaking idea: to offer free storage of photos and videos, although a few years after its implementation Google changed that and began to think that it was a good way to earn money to ask users to pay for more space, something they could not do if they gave unlimited storage. Since that will not change, it is time to start demanding improvements in the application, especially payment users. Aspects such as a better edition of professional photos, more powerful AI tools or a simple way to make external backups must improve.
The application has become the reference for many for obvious reasons: It works well, has many options and is available on any device With a browser. However, there is a margin of improvement so that this service becomes a better option even what it is now.
More free space
Waiting for Google to offer unlimited storage of photos and videos for free in its application is to wait too long. But that the 15 GB that give free in Gmail accounts are also also improvable. Being realistic, We could expect Google to improve its proposal with perhaps 25 or 30 GB freewhich would also make many people have to pay for Google One.
However, this would allow many others to use this application instead of opting for others that offer more free space and that, later, would be the ones that were captured by payment users when that space was insufficient. At the moment The cameras shoot in more resolution, the videos occupy much more space And we take more photos.
Proposals such as Amazon, which offers unlimited storage in photos but not in videos at Amazon Photos could also be interesting. It would be an intermediate solution between giving everything free and asking to begin to pay practically a few months after starting photos that we are a user with an average or advanced use of the camera.
IA edition
Although Google already has integrated within Google photos of Image editing tools, there are still some functions that are not available. For example, we cannot edit a photo to expand the outer perimeter using generative artificial intelligence. This is something they have begun to implement signatures such as Samsung, Oppo or Xiaomi, and are not complex benefits to use.
Google Magic Editor photos
In addition, the quality of the Edition to delete objectsor to restore parts of an image, it is not up to what Samsung offers for example. It is more similar to what Apple allows, and that is not a compliment. The editing options within the app could also be improved, which have been quite scarce.
Photographic edition
13 years ago Google bought Snapseed, a photography editing application that can still be used today and that it shows that it is from another era because it does not have integrated purchases, nor subscriptions nor is it paid. And he does not have advertising either. It is simply A good photo editing tool.
Snapseed
The free android
This app is not a source of income for Googleand barely keep it, with very few updates. The last one is a year ago. One way to take advantage of that purchase would be integrating advanced editing functions within Google Photoswhich would make the application one of the best when it comes to almost professionally editing images made with the mobile, or with another camera as long as we had it in Google photos.
External backup
Although Google photos is in itself a backup of our photos in the cloud, there are many users who, to release space from their mobiles, delete the images of their devices and simply leave those on Google servers. That means that, if they have any problem with their account, or if those photos are deleted, all our memories are lost.
It would be interesting that Google allowed to easily make a backup of all the information you have through a zip, and allow us to lower it, Updated with all photos and videos, with the same organization making albums foldersso that we keep it on a hard drive, in another online service, on Google Drive, etc.
The future of Google photos
The company is clear that it has a successful product and will not leave it aside. With the inclusion of Gemini in him we can change the way we interact with the images, being able to search with natural language and videos. Hopefully these improvements also involve being able to create brief videos or assemblies Simply with voice commands, using our own photos.
This type of functions, very striking but also useful, can give a new advertising to a service that usually goes unnoticed in people’s conversations when it values what applications use more, but in the background they value, because it is where their own images and photographs treasure.
There are also other ideas, such as power Create collaborative albums in which in addition to uploading photos, actions such as reacting can be carried out, leave commentsand even make editions about the image or create memes. It would be a way to turn Google photos into a kind of private social network, alternatively to what is being done with Google Maps.
