Google Photos is an extremely useful platform not only for storing our pictures and videos, but also for having them on all our devices via cloud synchronization as long as we have storage space.

But sometimes, almost without realizing it, our image and video library becomes filled not only with photos, but also with memes, junk images and many screenshots. Google Photos is working on new filters to solve this problem. hide less important images in our gallery.

Say goodbye to memes and countless screenshots on the Google Photos homepage

Google is working on a number of interesting changes to the Google Photos app interface, focusing on a new design for the Memories section and a new option for sorting the image library. These changes were discovered by CompilationDebuggingAs reported by PiunikaWeb while analyzing the source code of the Photos app in version 6.79.0.624777117.

The new option is called “Hide clutter” (Spanish for “Hide clutter”) and its purpose is filter and hide all screenshots, memes and GIFs. This option will be available among the Google Photos customization options, and when enabled, such files and images will disappear from the main Photos window.

However, it will still be possible to view these images from the relevant folders in the Google Photos library. The important change is that They will not interfere with the main folder.

Left: This is what the Memories tab now looks like in Google Photos. Right: The new design of the Memories tab. Image: PunikaWeb.

The other big news coming to Google Photos is this: A big change to the Memories tab interfaceWith a new layout that displays entire image collections as uniform rectangles rather than several jumbled collages, one image from each themed collection is selected to serve as the image album preview.

These changes will be available in a future update to the Google Photos mobile app. Undoubtedly the option to hide screenshots and memes a great addition to the appis really good in itself at automatically identifying such images.

Google recently announced some major news, including the arrival of the Pixel magic eraser for Photos, and soon we’ll also see the debut of a new option to save storage space on the platform.

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