Google Photos Home Screen Shortcut makes accessing local folders easy

Google Photos is a useful application when it comes to managing photos stored locally or in Google Drive. Besides, it also has a great photo and video editing tool.

However, accessing photos stored locally on your phone is a daunting task. For those of you who don’t know, these images can be found within a folder called “Library”, located at the bottom of the tab.

According to the Google News-Telegram group, Google is making it easier to find your locally stored screenshots and other folders. A new shortcut located at the top of the Home Photos screen will help you with that.

The Telegram group shared a few screenshots (attached below) that will help you understand better. Screenshots show a shortcut that is hard to miss on the app’s home screen. In addition, the shortcut will also show you the number of new photos added to a folder.

Google Photos Shortcut is a recent version of the app

The new card will not be limited to screenshots (via-AndroidPolice). Google Images may also show newly updated folders with new media files and may be displayed on the home screen, but examples are not available.

Google Photos may also show this card to recommend recently updated albums or other galleries. It may use machine learning to show you what the app thinks you might want to see.

Recently, Google Photos introduced a feature that allows users to change the date or time of an image. This is useful as you now do not need to open the Google Photos desktop version to do so.

In addition, the Android app has received Material You makeover with new home screen design features. However, the new Google Photos shortcut comes out with a server-side update.