The feature is expected to be super simple to use, making the process of sharing large amounts of photos through Google and not Facebook, email, or other services easier than filling a folder in Google Drive with images and sharing a web link. With it, you can easily share albums of your holiday get-togethers with friends and family, and they can then add their own photos. In the past, the users who received this link could only view the photos, but with shared albums, these users can now collaborate and add their own photos and videos, while also receiving notifications when other users upload photos and videos to the album.
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It’s interesting, though, because shared albums was one of the few big features Google’s Photos app has been lacking until this point. Because Google Photos is cross-platform across Android, iPhones, iPads, and the web, Shared Albums should be widely accessible and likely a popular way to share Christmas photos with family later this month. Now this might sound a bit confusing because we were able to select a group of photos and share them already.
The feature, which is available today for both Android and iOS versions of Google Photos, lets you set your albums to Collaborative and thereby share them with whomever wants to add photos to them.
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This is something that Google did demo at Google I/O earlier this year where Google Photos was relaunched. Using Google’s search algorithm, users can search for words in their photos like “dog” or “graduation”. You too can be voted the holiday cheermeister with Google Photos shared albums. Pretty neat, and definitely a nice feature to have with Google Photos.
