Google is preparing an anti-ex mode for your old photos. A future version of the Photos application should make it possible to exclude certain faces from the retrospectives which are sometimes suggested.
A love story that works is a breakup that has not yet happened, we sometimes hear. The problem is that digital tools have the unfortunate tendency to throw old content back in our faces, without much discernment. This is also true for mourning, with photos of deceased individuals which can be suggested in an awkward way by social networks.
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Let's stop spoiling the atmosphere, Google is preparing a remedy for this problem. A bit likeApple Photosthe app Google Photos should soon allow you to request to no longer see a person in the “Memories” section.
There are memories we don't want to see
A future version of Google Photos should limit the risks of making this kind of blunder. In an article published on May 1, the site Android Authority reports the discovery of a functionality which should keep certain faces away from this type of memory flashbacks.
In broad terms, this future mode consists of an option intended to not bring up clichés in mechanisms like “memories”. It will be necessary to specifically designate faces, so that the Google Photos algorithms exclude people from the recommendation system.
On the screenshots, a “Hide face from memories” command is visible in a drop-down menu, with two proposals: showing a face less often in memories, but keeping it in group photos. Or block the face in memories and in common groups of photos.
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No justification will obviously be necessary. The example of the ex whom we no longer want to see in painting is a textbook case, but other circumstances can be invoked, such as a loved one who recently passed away, and whose mourning is not yet over, or a former comrade with whom we fell out for good.
Options already exist in the “memories” feature of Google Photos to completely hide a particular calendar date, or a specific person. The feature allowing you to “show less often” an individual offers an intermediate possibility, just targeting the memories that Google occasionally brings up.