Google Photos 4.47 tests showing “Recent Highlights” album in the Memories header

Google Photos is one of the beloved apps I have on my phones. While I cherish it for letting me sync each of the pictures I take from all the smartphones that come in reviews, I also adore its features such as face tagging for humans and pets and Memories. Being one of the apps that users interact with most frequently, Google Photos gets plenty of updates and the latest one brings “Recent Highlights” which automatically compiles your best pictures to show on the top alongside memories.

Starting Google Photos 4.47, Google is testing the “Recent Highlights” feature which “automatically curated album of your best photos” according to its description. For Mishaal, our Editor-in-Chief, the feature is now showing in the Memories header and the images inside also move in a carousel format similar to Memories.

While Recent Highlights is just starting to show up within Photos, this isn’t the first mention of this feature. If you own a smart display like the Nest Hub or any Android TV or Chromecast device, you can cast you the photos from the Photos albums directly to the display using Google Home. Among the albums you can choose, there is “Recent Highlights” which is composed automatically by Google. While the criterion for these “best photos” isn’t clear, Google seemingly chooses your and your family’s images which have good lighting and details. More recently, Google also added the option to cast these albums to smart displays directly from Photos.

You can get see four of the Recent Highlights images as the folder icon on Google Home but not select them. In Photos, you can’t even see these pictures. We’re still not sure whether Google wants to just show this as just another feed alongside the Memories or as an option elsewhere too. The test and the history of the feature do suggest it we might see it on the Google Assistant’s ambient mode or the photo frame feature which appears when you rest the Pixel 3/3XL or Pixel 4/4XL on the Pixel Stand.

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