Here’s how Google Photo’s new Tinder-like swiping feature works (APK teardown)

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Here’s how Google Photo’s new Tinder-like swiping feature works (APK teardown)

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• Google Photos is getting a swiping mechanism to keep or delete photos, and we got it working.


• With this, you will be able to weed out unwanted photos by swiping left on them.


• It currently lets you keep or delete images and videos from daily or monthly clusters in the Google Photos app.

Among the many reasons to use Google Photos is the ease of backing up valuable memories to Drive and accessing them across multiple devices. But enabling automatic uploads for all photos and videos can also hog a lot of your Google Drive storage, and manually removing all pictures from the cloud can be a painstaking task. Thankfully, Google is simplifying the process with a Tinder-style swipe mechanism that we saw last week. Now, we have the feature working, allowing us to see how

       
       
       

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While the Tinder-style clean-up functionality in Google Photos is still under development, we were able to toggle it with under-the-hood tweaks in version 7.42.0.797402755 of the Android app. As you can see in the demo below, the feature can be toggled by tapping the brush icon on a cluster of images, which are usually grouped by day or month. Tapping the button opens up an interface with stacked cards, where you can swipe left to delete a particular photo or swipe right to save it.

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