So are the new albums that are already reaching users in Spain

Great changes are approaching to Google apps, coinciding with the next Android 16 launch that comes from the hand of a new design philosophy called Material 3 Expressive.

With material 3 Expressive, Google expands the possibilities of you material, something that It will be especially noticed in interface elements As menus, floating bars and action buttons.

Although Android 16 has not yet arrived, some Google apps are already adopting this new design in advance; For example, yesterday we talked about the new design of Gmail, which adopts many elements of Material 3 Expressive.

Now it is the turn of Google photos, which is also adopting material 3 Expressive, although it is doing it little by little. The first modification Users are already arriving in Spainas we have seen.

The first adoption of Material 3 Expressive in Google Photos affects albums; From now on, when we open a photo album, we will see new elements in the interface with another design.

The most obvious difference is found in the New floating bar in Google Photosthat replaces the buttons that until now were in the album view and that allowed to share, add photos and ask for photos.

The new floating bar includes The most important controls of the album view. The first button allows you to share the album, the second, add a photograph to the album, and finally, the third button allows you to edit the album.

It should be clarified that these three functions were already available in the old Google photos, but now they are more easily accessible; besides, The floating bar always remains in sight without disturbing.

In the material presentation document 3 Expressive, Google encourages developers to Implement this new floating bar to offer access to important functions.

The floating bar is the Substitute for the lower bar That many Android apps use to show their controls, with the advantage that it is prettier, occupies less space, and allows you to see more parts of the app.

In Google photos, this floating bar also assumes that Some functions have changed site. For example, the “ask for photos” function, which allows you to request the impression of our photographs, is now in the upper right menu.

In the upper part, in addition to the menu that allows you to ask for photos and delete the album, we will find a New button to order the photos of the albumshowing the oldest first or vice versa.

Another novelty that is already beginning to reach users is the possibility of Share photo albums using a QR code. The new option appears when you press on the sharing button in the new lower bar.

By pressing the sharing button, we will see a series of apps and suggestions to share the album, in addition to a new option called “QR code”. This will generate a unique link, from which you can access the album.

In addition, a QR code will be generated, which, scanning it with a smartphone, will take us to the link generated by Google photos with our album. This can be a very simple way to share many photos with the mobile.

At the moment, these are the only novelties related to material 3 Expressive in Google Photos, but in the coming weeks another update with novelties such as the new Google Pictures editor should arrive.