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Your Photos, Made Easier

If you take photos on your phone and use Google Photos, there are some genuinely useful AI features already built in, free, and ready to use today.

Fix your photos before you post them

You're about to share a photo to the family group or to Instagram. Before you do, it's worth spending ten seconds fixing it, right inside the Google Photos app you already use.

Remove a photobomber

Open the photo in Google Photos, tap Edit, then Tools, then Magic Eraser. It will often find the unwanted person or object on its own. If not, just circle it with your finger, and it will disappear, with the background filled in naturally.

Fix a blurry photo

Look for the Unblur option in the same Edit menu. It sharpens the photo in a few seconds, useful for photos taken quickly or in low light.

Improve the lighting on a portrait

Portrait Light lets you adjust how the light falls on a person's face after the photo has already been taken, useful when someone's face came out too dark or too bright.

All three of these are free for everyone to use now, no subscription needed.

Find any old photo by just describing it

Instead of scrolling through hundreds of photos to find one, you can now simply ask.

Open Google Photos, and look for the Ask option that appears above a photo, or use the search bar at the top. Type or speak something like "my nephew's birthday from last year", or "the trip we took to Goa", and it will find matching photos for you, based on what's actually in them, not just the file name or date.

This works because Google Photos already recognises faces, places, and objects in your library, in order to make searching possible. If that feels a little too much, you can turn this feature off in your Google Photos settings at any time, it's entirely your choice.