ANDROID & iOS
Find documents faster in Google Photos
The latest update to Google Photos improves the app’s organisation of screenshots and photos you take of items containing text – including documents, posters and receipts. It now uses AI to better identify and categorise these images and sort them into appropriate albums. This makes it much easier to find text-based pictures without having to scroll through your whole photo library.
Tap the Search tab at the bottom of the Photos app and you’ll see a new Documents section between the Places and Things rows (see screenshot below left). Here you’ll find albums with labels such as Screenshots, Posters, Menus, ‘Book cover’ and ‘Identity document’. If you find – as we did – that Google has placed some images in the wrong categories, tap the tick box next to them, then press the three-dot
