The advantage of making a backup copy of all your photos in Google Photos is that you can view them later taking advantage of their excellent searchability. But sometimes you might want to do something simpler, like see photos from ten years ago. It’s even easier.
In fact, Google Photos gives you three different ways to return to the past so you can see the photos you took in any year, as long as those photos are backed up and correctly contain the date information in their metadata.
Travel to the past by scrolling
The quickest way to time travel with Google Photos is to drag this control down.
The easiest and most intuitive way to view photos from the past in Google Photos is simply scroll down. Now, it’s not worth scrolling down because you could spend hours looking at photos from over a decade ago.
The trick is in “catch” the cursor located on the right side of the app (with a double up and down arrow ↕️) and drag it down. This makes the app jump from month to month, making it much easier for you to view past years accurately and very quickly.
You can also search for dates
Of course, if you know exactly what you’re looking for, you can opt for a faster route: find year. Google Photos lets you enter dates into the search engine, automatically completing the dates when photos are saved in your backup.
All you have to do is start typing the year and accept one of the suggestions, which have a calendar icon on the left. Also you can write specific days or months.
Google also prepares memories for you
Finally, we must not forget that Google Photos has a powerful memory function which saves photos from the past with different themes and effects. You have a few in a row at the top of the app, some of which are “10 years ago”, “11 years ago”, etc.
You can also directly open the Memories tabwhere you will find your photos classified chronologically into groups of memories. You can also use the magic “cursor” to fast travel to a decade past.
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