Users can now access hidden photos on all devices with Google Photos
Google Photos now syncs the Locked Folder across all of users’ devices without compromising security. Users will now be able to access sensitive images on iPhones and iPads as well, not just Android handsets and tablets. Previously due to security measures users could not sync their locked Google Photos files across their devices. The same security principles still apply to Locked Folders. Those images won’t appear anywhere in the app. Only users can open the folder.
Users also have the option to turning on backup for the Locked Folder, which means if they don’t want its content to sync to other devices, they can choose to keep backup toggled off.
Nothing else is changing about how the Locked Folder works. Users’ private photos and videos from this folder won’t appear in the gird, in Memories, in albums, and won’t come up when they search Google Photos.
This upgrade comes after the Google Photos app's earlier this month release of a new Memories feature that functions like a scrapbook. The expected AI-powered Magic Editor, which was previewed earlier this year at Google's developer conference, is the major release that consumers are still awaiting.
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