All these images are safely tucked away in the Locked Folder within my Google Photos account, which means they don’t show up in my feed and won’t pop up in a feature like Memories. It also gives me ...

Google Photos now has a feature to sort certain images into “Document Collections” and auto-archive them—but there are some flaws. As opposed to albums, Google grabs images that don't look like actual ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google Photos has started letting users back up their Locked Folder, meaning that sensitive photos are accessible from multiple ...

My photo library was a complete disaster. Years of random uploads, screenshots mixed in with actual memories, and folders I couldn't even remember creating. I had been relying on Google Photos for ...

It’s funny how Google will announce a new feature in an upcoming rollout, only to then hold that feature back, even after the rollout has happened. One such feature is the long overdue Locked Folder ...

Not long ago, I tackled the long-overdue tech project of cleaning out my computer’s “Pictures” folder. It had grown ever more unwieldy after years of backing up my phone’s photos and dumping the ...

Google Photos’ strong suit is being able to safely back up all of your pictures across devices. If something happens to one phone, your photos are safe and sound in the cloud. But what if you don’t ...

We reported on the Google Pixel Feature Drop earlier this year, which brought the “Locked Folder” functionality within the Google Photos app to Pixel devices. The search giant announced in October ...

[Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2009 series. Every day until the end of June 2009, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or ...