Aug 8, 2024

Introducing the Collections view: Find what you need, faster

Announcement
Hi everyone!
 
We are introducing Collections, a new destination in the Photos app that replaces Library and makes finding content easier than ever.  Whether you've personally organized photos into albums, someone else has shared an album with you, or Google Photos has automatically and intelligently assembled groups of people, documents, or places, you can find it all in Collections.  We are also adding new shortcuts at the top of Collections that make locating recently or frequently accessed groups of photos especially fast.
 
All of your albums, in one place
We’ve heard you loud and clear that with the previous experience, finding shared albums was difficult. With the Collections view, you can access private and shared albums, all under one roof:
  1. Open the Google Photos app.
  2. At the bottom, tap Collections > Albums.
You can switch between “All,” “Shared with me,” and “My albums,” to find the albums you’re looking for. 
 
Favorites, Trash, and other dynamic tiles
You can find Favorites and Trash at the top of the Collections view. The other two tiles may rotate based on the items you navigate to the most. We’ve also heard from you that you didn’t like the placement of Locked Folder in the app. Because of that, Locked Folder won’t be suggested at the top of the Collections view.
 
Find more
We want to streamline how you can find your content with an interface that makes albums and groups we’ve created for you more intuitive and accessible. That’s why, in addition to the items that were previously on the Library, you can now find the following in the Collections view:
  • People & pets
  • Places
  • Documents
 
Access tools from Utilities
You may have also noticed that there is no longer a Utilities folder in the Google Photos app. If you want to access the tools that were in the Utilities folder, here’s where you can find them:  
  • Locked Folder: Tap Collections. At the bottom, tap Locked.
  • Import photos: At the top, tap Create +. Under “Get photos,” tap Import from other places.
  • Make a new creation: At the top, tap Create + and then the type of creation you want to make, such as a new album, collage, highlight video, cinematic photo,  or animation..
  • Free up space: At the top, tap your Account profile photo or Initial and then Free up space on this device.
  • Move photos to archive: Select a photo. Tap More and then Move to archive.
  • Manage photo frames: At the top, tap your Account profile photo or Initial. Tap Photos settings and then Apps & devices. Tap Photo frames
     
The Collections view is starting to roll out now to all users in the Android and iOS Google Photos app. If you can’t find the Collections view yet, check back over the coming weeks.
 
Thanks,
Google Photos Team
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Last edited by Rebecca V. Aug 9, 2024
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Sep 3, 2024
Google have heard users loud and clear that with the previous experience, finding shared albums was difficult. With the Collections view, you can access private and shared albums, all under one roof:

If you have any thoughts about this, please reach out to Google using the feedback option in the help section starting with #Collections
 
We are advised that this feedback goes directly to the Google Photos team and is used in management reports to drive the roadmap for new or modified features.
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