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Google Photos offers a smooth and enjoyable user experience through its brilliant features. It is a commendable storage platform that safely backs up your photos and videos.
However, the benefits of Google Photos don’t end there, as it also offers many productive features to help you easily complete tasks like editing, making collages, tagging faces, and more.
While the Google Photos mobile app is missing a lot of features due to certain limitations, you can access all the useful features through the browser.
In this article, we’ll walk you through some of the best features Google Photos has to offer.
Edit date and time
Editing photos is always a priority for users as it enhances their images. Recently, Google Photos updated one of its features, allowing the user to edit the time and date, a previously unavailable feature.
While it was available in the browser application, users could not access it through their mobile app.
However, with the new update, you can easily access it from your mobile app. To edit the date and time, swipe up on the image or video and click the edit button in the right corner.
Here you can edit the date and time. If you can’t see the date and time option, check if your app has been updated to the latest version.
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Create a collage or movie on Google Photos
Creating a collage or movie has never been easier than with Google Photos. Collages and films turn out to be ingenious features that ensure a wonderful user experience.
These collages and movies can serve as a great memory refresher afterwards, making this a commendable feature. Follow the steps below to create a collage or movie from your images:
- Go to the library area
- Tap Utilities
- Scroll all the way down
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Google Photos also offers some automatic suggestions for creating a collage or movie with your photos. The film also includes music which adds to its overall appeal and the original photos have not been erased even if you delete the collage or film.
Recover recently deleted photos and videos
We often delete our important photos or videos which are very valuable. Even if we think they’re done and dusted, that’s not the case as Google Photos stores these photos in the Trash section where you can recover them within 60 days of deleting them.
So if you made the mistake of deleting an important photo or video, you can easily recover it using this feature. Follow the steps below to recover your deleted photos or videos:
- Go to the library
- Click on the Trash menu
- Recover the photo you want
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You cannot recover the photo if more than 60 days have passed since it was deleted.
That concludes our guide to the best Google Photos features and how to use them. We hope you found our guide helpful and check out more such guides here.
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