September was an exceptionally busy month for Google Photos. It saw the arrival of the generative Veo 3 model, an AI-powered photo editing tool that finally made it beyond Pixel phones. Google made various design changes and added new features and capabilities. Yet one of the most requested features remains an iPhone exclusive.
The feature you haven't found yet on any Android phone, but iPhone owners can fully use it, is manual stacking of photos. The function is available on iOS appeared at the end of May this year and users could finally choose which images they wanted to combine into a "stack" instead of having an automatic algorithm determine it for them Google Photos – which always suited everyone.
This option gives users more control over their library. Why? For example, many photographers and enthusiasts often take multiple shots of the same scene, and manual stacking allows them to keep their gallery organized without losing track of what's going on. And while it's a small thing, this feature has already saved a lot of time for many people.
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Surprisingly, iPhone users have the photo stitching feature available almost 5 months nowAnd Android users are still out of luck. This is despite the fact that its code was already found in the January analysis of the app. Google photos portal Android Authority. In recent months, Google has been adding to Fotok one news after another – from AI tools after sharing improvementsWhy does a simple tool like the photo link button remain exclusive for iOS, remains unclear.
