- Ask Photos is a Google Photos feature designed to answer questions about the contents of your photo library.
- While announced at Google I/O 2024, access over the past year has been extremely limited.
- Earlier this month we heard the rollout was paused while Google worked to address a few issues, but today it’s back on track.
Over the past couple years, AI has been changing the way we do lots of things, and while there is absolutely no shortage of controversial uses of the tech, there are also some places where employing it just makes all the sense in the world. Back at I/O 2024, Google announced one of those really clever-sounding use cases, with Ask Photos for Google Photos promising to make your gigantic archive of pics actually useful by letting you search through it using natural language. After a very bumpy year, it finally sounds like Ask Photos is now ready to live up to its potential.
Following that introduction, we caught an early look at Ask Photos last summer, but even by the time fall rolled around access was still extremely limited, with Google only testing Ask Photos with a small group of users.