Google ha appena rilasciato un nuovo widget per Android: per attivarlo è necessario aggiornare l'app di Foto e seguire questa procedura.
Chi ha l’app di Google Foto installata sul proprio smartphone ogni mattina si sveglia con un ricordo: è una foto degli anni passati, scattata nello stesso giorno di oggi o nella stessa settimana di oggi, che Google Foto ci propone nella sezione “I tuoi ricordi“. Foto ci manda anche una notifica, per invitarci a riguardare i vecchi scatti.
Per alcuni è solo un fastidio o una funzione inutile, per altri è una piacevole sorpresa mattutina dal sapore assolutamente nostalgico, ma gradito. According to Google's calculations, however, the latter must be more than the former, so much so that with the latest version of the Photos app this function has been further expanded with a pleasant (for the latter) novelty: there is now a "Your memories" widget to put on the home screen of your Android phone, so that you can always have your photographic memories of past years in front of you. Since it is an image-based widget, it is highly customizable and can be enlarged at will.
How to activate the new widget
The new Your Memories widget in Google Photos is activated like all other Android widgets: just make a long tap on a free area of the phone's background and select the "Widget" option. The list of available widgets will then appear: we'll have to scroll down until we find "Your memories 2×3".
Then we'll have to hold down the widget and "drop" it on the phone's background. The 2×3 wording refers to the widget's standard size, but we can still resize it to our liking as long as there's space available on the screen.
What photos do you see in the widget
Google's new nostalgia widget is nice, but not perfect. When we tap on a photo, in fact, it's opened full-screen in the Google Photos app, from which we can continue to browse our photos as normal, new or old.
When we go back to the phone's home screen, however, then the widget also starts showing recent photos, which aren't exactly memories...