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Group similar pictures in Google Photos

Google has updated its Photos app with a useful feature called Photo Stacks, which keeps your pictures better organised by grouping similar shots. Instead of showing multiple photos of the same subject, taken seconds apart, Stacks presents them as a single ‘top pick’ image. Tapping this opens a film strip containing the other pictures in the stack.

Google Photos will inform you when Stacks is available on your phone or tablet, and will enable the feature by default. You can switch it on and off manually by tapping the three-dot icon at the top of your photo feed and choosing ‘Stack similar photos’ ( in our screenshot below left). Alternatively, press your profile picture in the top-right corner, followed

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