The Mountain View firm has started deploying Stacks on Google Photos, which will simplify the organization of your images. This will group all your similar photos, taken at the same time, in a single folder, allowing you to find them more quickly. We’ll explain how it works.
For several days we have been talking to you about Piles, or Stacks in the language of Shakespeare, this new way of organizing images in Photos. Appearing in beta at the end of October, it is based on a simple, but terribly effective, concept. All similar photos, taken at approximately the same time, will be stored in a single folder, freeing up space in your gallery.
Later, we learned that it would only be possible to add one or two photos per stack, which doesn’t seem like much. The idea would then be for the user to choose which of the two photos they prefer, in order to place it on top of said pile. However, this photo may be false, or at least no longer relevant. Indeed, Google has obviously started deploying the functionality, which makes it a little clearer.
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Indeed, a Reddit user indicates in a publication that he received the functionality via a recent update on his Pixel 8. On his screenshot, we see a presentation window which informs him that he can now “automatically group similar photos with image stacks”. The pop-up then adds: “Enable image stacks to organize similar photos captured at the same time.”
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Additionally, there are a total of 6 similar photos on this pop-up, which suggests that it will be possible to fit more than two images into a single Stack. To open the latter, you will have to click on a small icon at the top right of the featured image. It will also be possible to deactivate the option from Settings if you do not wish to change the application’s display. We will still have to wait for the global deployment of the functionality to confirm all this information.
Source: Reddit