New “Memories” Widget in Google Photos for Users
Although the general version of Android 12 won’t be available until this autumn, we already see the results of the revamped widgets. Spotify is now working on a redesign of its music player widget, Chrome is currently testing a new fast action search widget, and now it’s time for Google Photos to do the same thing. Earlier this month, we found and forced-enabled the new Photos widget on the Google homepage. According to the tipster, the update is already beginning to roll out to users using the app’s version 5.52.0.387241369 (APK Mirror). However, this is currently a server-side deployment, and it hasn’t yet hit any of our endpoints or devices. A new home screen widget for showing your Memories was announced in June, and it has been accessible on the iOS version of the Google Photos app since last year. The Google Photos app for Android has been in development for a while now, and we previously reported on it. Although the code for the functionality was there in the app, it was n...