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Google Photos 3.0 Released, Bringing Smarter Sharing, Suggestions and Shared Libraries (techcrunch.com)
Google is rolling out Google Photos 3.0, which features an AI-powered Suggested Sharing feature along with Shared Libraries, "both of which are designed to make the Google Photos app a more social experience, rather than just a personal collection of photo memories," reports TechCrunch. From the report: With the addition of Suggested Sharing, Google Photos will now prompt you to share photos you took by pushing an alert to your smartphone. The feature will identify people in the photos using facial recognition technology and machine learning, which helps it understand who you typically share photos with, among other things. It also looks at the photos you've taken at a particular location, before organizing them in a ready-to-share album by selecting the best shots (e.g., removing blurry or dark photos). You can edit the album if you choose, then share with the people the app suggests, remove suggestions, or add others. Even if your friends or family doesn't use Google Photos, you can share by sending them a link via text or email. A second feature called Shared Libraries is designed more for use with families or significant others. This lets you either share your entire photo collection with someone else, or you can configure it to share only selected photos -- for example, photos of your children.
And yet, still no option to sort an album by filename, despite many people requesting it for years. Picasa could do it.
They killed off Picasa, promised feature parity within a year, did not deliver, and isn't even close to delivering.
There's so many low hanging fruit features that Google could trivially add to their products to make them massively more useful, but they don't.