In an attempt to make it easier for users to show off their vacation pictures during the next family reunion, Google has added a new slideshow option for its Photos app.

For now, the feature has only been made available for the Android app and on the desktop; iOS users will have to wait a while longer to get access.

Thanks to the slideshow feature, users can forget all about clicking on every image in the folder while they talk about the most recent trip they’ve been on. Thanks to the new capability, they simply have to open a folder, tap a photo, and choose the Slideshow option from the drop-down menu.

Halting the slideshow is as easy as it was to turn it on; you just tap on a photo. Google’s recommendation is that you improve the viewing experience by using the Chrome tab to the TV so that your friends and family can enjoy the photos on a larger screen.

However, Google still has to tweak some features; at the moment, users cannot tweak the speed of the slideshow. You can’t go faster through the pictures you took of the landscapes, and slower through your selfies (let’s be honest); Google says you have to wait equally for all.

The search giant is constantly upping the ante on its Photos app. Google has previously launched a very useful feature that automatically organizes the album so that users can skip the dreadful chore of having to do it themselves.

Among other wonderful quirks, Google Photos (it’s Assistant, to be more specific) can compile new albums from recently taken snapshots, and even offers you a selection of the best pictures in the set.

Tools like app adds and maps are also cool, allowing you to remember precisely where your photos were taken. If you want to add more meaning to your album, you’re also allowed to caption each photo before adding it to a folder.

There are more than 200 million people using Google Photos at the moment, and the app seems to be riding rather well in the increasingly competitive market. It’s not long before Google teaches its deep learning systems to detect the emotion you felt when you took a particular photo!
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