Are you tired of finding your photos stored haphazardly? Don’t panic, Google Photos has a new tool allowing you to manually classify your document photos by category. Practical !
If you have an Android phone, you probably use the Google Photos app to store all your online photos and videos on the internet giant’s servers. A handy tool that automatically stores captured images into albums, which can then be shared with loved ones. This also applies to documents that you take a photo of, such as your receipts, invoices or various identity papers. Thanks to AI, the application separates documents from your real photos by integrating them into a dedicated section. But until now, it did not allow them to be classified manually. But Google is finally rolling out an option to do this, as noted Android Police. Useful for managing application errors!
Google Photos: finally manual classification!
With this new feature, your photographed documents, usually automatically labeled according to their category, can be classified manually. So, when you view the image in full screen, you will see a small icon in the upper left corner, indicating the category it is supposed to correspond to. Tapping on it will bring up the “Edit Categories” and “Show All Documents” options. The first allows you to select one or more categories corresponding to the image in question, while the second allows you to access a complete list of your documents.
Google offers nine categories: screenshots, identity, event info, books and magazines, payment methods, notes, recipes and menus, receipts and social networks. However, it is impossible to create new ones at the moment. The deployment of this function is currently in progress. You may not benefit from it yet, but it won’t be long before you do. Patience !