Google Photos will soon offer a new way to organize your images; this is much clearer

Like the vast majority of photo galleries on Android, Google Photos offers storage by date. Your most recent images are at the top of the news feed, and you’ll have to scroll for a while to find this shot taken a few years ago. Of course, it is also possible to create personalized folders, not to mention that the application already offers you a certain number of folders.

However, this operation is not ideal for everyone, and Google seems to be aware of this. Android expert AssembleDebug shared a really interesting discovery on X (formerly Twitter). The latter claims to have found traces of lines of code for a functionality called “Stacks” (“stacks” in Molière’s language), which is literally a new way of organizing your photos.

Google Photos will organize your images much more clearly

The idea is simple: Instead of sorting your photos by the date they were taken, Stacks will detect all similar images taken at the same time and put them into a special category. AssembleDebug also points out the possibility to configure a category as favorites to be displayed priority over others.

If nothing currently allows us to confirm this, since Google Photos already allows single photos, we think it will also be possible to search your chosen category using keywords. Additionally, the user can enable or disable Photo Stacks at any time if they wish to retain the current sorting method. The feature should not be enabled by default.

Currently, Stacks is available in v59 of Google Photos. The company has not yet communicated about an official distribution for the general public.