In May of this year, the ability to choose a person’s face first appeared in order to remove them from all the memories you have in Google Photos. Now finally the tech giant updated the app to be able to hide people, animals or even certain dates.
Memories are one of the best features of the Google app for them to appear at certain times, but of course, when collecting all the stored photos, it is possible that people who are no longer in our lives appearso they can easily generate mixed emotions.
This is the reason why Google has been working on this feature and I launched it precisely during a month in which the highest number of breakups is recorded. Google’s new support page explains that if you wish, you can choose not to have a certain person appear in your memories with the option to block or show less of their face.
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Blocking it means it will no longer appear in any memory and not even in group photos with other people. If you select Show less, you won’t get as many memories of the chosen person, even though they may appear in group photos of people. In order to hide the face of the ex, here’s how to do it with these simple steps:
- The application opens.
- Click on the profile picture or initial at the top right.
- Now let’s move on to settings and selecting preferences. And then just memories.
- It opens to hide people and pets.
- Under the less or blocked display options, click Select Faces.
- The ones you want to hide are selected.
- Click done.
There is an important point that Google does not want to ignore to clarify that, even if this feature is scary, it may happen that at some point it fails. It warns you so that no one forgets and that it may happen that even if you block your face, a photo of you appears. This is mainly because image recognition may fail.
To make sure this image does not appear, there is the ability to hide photos by date and this is done in a very simple way with these steps below (Google Photos is therefore obliged to not show anything in the memories linked to this person according to Telephone Arena):
- You go to the same route as before, but instead of choosing to hide people and animals, you select hide dates.
- You choose the days you want and it’s done.
