Google Photos might make sharing photos easier by turning off quick edit
Google Photos has recently introduced a new feature called Quick Edit, which lets you fix up your pictures before you share them. But now, it looks like Google is thinking about giving users the choice to turn this feature off.
Here’s how Quick Edit works: when you click the share button on a photo, a special editing page pops up. This page gives you a couple of tools to quickly tweak or improve your photo before you send it off. It’s great for those who like to make last-minute changes, but it adds an extra step that not everyone might want.
For those who find this extra step a bit of a hassle, especially if you’re not into editing photos every time you share them, Google seems to be preparing a way to skip it altogether. In the newest version of Google Photos (version 7.14.0.718134140), there’s a new button on the Quick Edit page. It’s shaped like a pill and is located in the top-right corner, making it easy for you to turn off Quick Edit if you don’t need it.
Also, Google might change how the cropping tool works within Quick Edit. Right now, there’s a crop button that takes you to another part of Google Photos to do the cropping. But soon, this could change, and you might be able to crop directly from the Quick Edit screen without going anywhere else.
These updates aren’t available yet in the current version of Google Photos, but they could be coming soon. We’ll keep this article updated as soon as these changes start showing up for everyone.