Google Photos to get Chromecast support, shared albums and people labelling

In case you missed the memo, Google Photos is now no longer a part of the Google+ app which means it gets to be updated independently whenever the fancy takes its development team. As it turns out, it’s about to get a nice little update which is going to introduce Chromecast support, shared albums and people labelling – the report says that these features will all be announced at Google‘s event tomorrow – failing that, the update will just be pushed out via the Play Store.

Chromecast support is probably the one thing that many Google Photos power users will have been pining for and even lets you customize your Chromecast experience with your personal photos rather than the stock (but still awesome) images. The shared albums feature aims to group photos together that were taken on the same day or same event and puts them in one place – though it’s not clear how the sharing of this will work. Finally, the people labelling update will let you tag people with custom labels, be it something endearing or nasty, but will no doubt help you sift through your photos quicker.

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Source: Android Police

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