September 30, 2023

Google Photographs’ Locked Folder characteristic, which lets Android customers save delicate photographs and movies in a password-protected folder is including assist for iOS and the online. Furthermore, Google Photographs customers now have the choice to again up their Locked Folder to the cloud.

Locked Folder first launched on Google Pixel units two years in the past, and it later turned accessible on extra Android units. Photographs and movies added to this Locked Folder don’t present up elsewhere in Google Photographs (together with search), and so they’re additionally not seen from different apps. Apple has the same “Hidden” folder on its Photographs app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

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This Locked Folder characteristic will be fairly helpful to guard delicate content material captured together with your digital camera. In the event you select to allow the brand new cloud backup possibility for Locked Folder, Google emphasizes that each one your content material continues to be protected by the corporate’s superior safety infrastructure.

Lastly, Google introduced immediately that it has redesigned the Settings web page in Google Photographs to make it simpler to switch privateness, backup, sharing, notifications settings, and extra. The redesigned Settings web page for Google Photographs is rolling out immediately on iOS and Android.