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TL;DR
- A redesign is within the works for Albums in Google Pictures.
- The brand new look introduces a floating bar and rearranges some choices.
- The UI change makes Albums simpler to make use of one-handed and entry share settings.
Until you have got huge palms, navigating by way of your albums in Google Photos with one hand could be a bit troublesome. However it seems like a UI change might repair that, together with making it simpler to entry share settings.
An APK teardown helps predict options which will arrive on a service sooner or later based mostly on work-in-progress code. Nevertheless, it’s attainable that such predicted options might not make it to a public launch.
The add images button seems beneath the quilt picture within the present model of Google Pictures. Whenever you scroll, it strikes to the highest of the display, making it nearly unreachable with one hand. On high of that, if you wish to share, you’ll need to stretch your thumb all to means up high to faucet on the three-dot menu simply to see the choice.
In model 7.7 of the Pictures app, this seems to be altering as some parts have been rearranged and a brand new floating bar has been added on the backside of the display. You may see an instance of outdated vs new within the screenshots under.
We really found proof of this floating bar within the works in an earlier APK teardown. It seems principally the identical as earlier than, with the identical choices for sharing, including a brand new picture, and enhancing. Nevertheless, there’s one distinction this time, Google has dropped the textual content that appeared beneath the icons. Because of this, the bar is a bit more compact in comparison with the final time we noticed it.
The bar isn’t the one change right here. You might discover that the Forged icon on the high of the web page has been swapped out with a switch icon. This Forged choice hasn’t disappeared, it has simply been moved to a brand new location.
If you wish to discover Forged, you’ll now need to faucet on the three-dot menu. Along with Forged, you’ll additionally discover some new choices, together with Order images, Sharing settings, Auto add images, and Open member choices.
Briefly, all the things is functionally the identical after the redesign. Nevertheless, the UI has been improved to make issues a little bit simpler for one-handed use and sharing.
