One of the best ways to have your photos on different devices and organize them so you can locate them whenever you want is to use Google Photos, the service that comes by default on your Android mobile. What happens when you want to search for a specific photo in Google Photos? There are those who scroll until they locate it, but if you have several, the best thing to do is to resort to its advanced search tools. So, you can write things like names, places, describe something about the scene like “there are trees”. I insist, if you have been accumulating photographs for years, this is a real blessing.
If you use your search engine to find certain photographs in Google Photos, you may have discovered something in recent weeks. After the latest update, some have experienced something frustrating in the search engine: a blank page as an answeran error because when there is no photograph that matches the description, then a message appears indicating that “there are no results”. If you are suffering from this error in Google Photos, there is already a solution.
Google Photos search engine returns a blank page
Throughout September, a few people reported this failure, as can be seen in this Reddit thread , this one , this one , and this one . This is not an isolated case, but it is not a general failure either.while in the Xataka team we did not suffer from it. As reported in Android Police, the bug can be present between versions 6.93.0.657009179 and 6.95.0.663027175 of Google Photos, or for about a month.
In the last few hours, Google has made public in its help section that it has been working for some time on this bug in which Photos left the query empty and did not provide results, even if there were samples that matched the search terms. It also explains that it is aware that other people They got results, but they didn’t match not at all with the search parameters.
In addition to thanking the people who sent their feedback to report the problem, the most important thing is Google says it has already solved itSearching in photos now works as it should, even using caption terms.
The solution to this Google Photos bug is simple– Simply update the app as the fix has been implemented in the latest released version. Google also encourages you to leave feedback on this same post or on the app page to follow up.
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