The Google Photos feature that lets you “forget” people you no longer get along with

Google Photos, Google’s image storage service, is preparing a new feature that will allow us to stop seeing those people we do not get along with or simply do not want to have any contact with. It is a kind of manual censorship in that we will be able to select a particular face so that we do not have to delete a particular image if we do not want to. For the time being, this new feature would only affect the Memories that the application recurrently refreshes to highlight past events.

This is the new feature of Google Photos to cover the faces of people we do not get along with, which will arrive soon

This information comes via Android Authority, which has performed data mining in the latest APK version of Google Photos. The recent changes in the code of this application have found clues that point to a new feature that could arrive soon and that has to do with the censorship at will of faces, particularly in Google Photos Memories.

Google Photos Memories constantly reminds us of snapshots we uploaded to the service of important events, both ours and those of our contacts. And given the nature of human relationships, this inevitably brings up images that may include people we have decided to cut off contact with.

To alleviate this, the company would have implemented this new feature that consists of hiding the face of the memories, so that we will not have to delete images to “forget” certain people as before. While before the change only had the option to “show less” to a particular person in Google Photos Memories, after this change will be added another option to block the face in question, effectively censoring the face of that person in the images that reappear in Google Photos Memories.

It is unknown when this feature will be implemented for the public, or if it will ever be implemented at all. The fact is that this Google Photos Memories feature exists, but the company may simply never implement it.