Google introduced an AI-powered editing feature in Google Photos called “Edit with Ask Photos” last year, allowing users to make photo adjustments using natural language prompts. It initially debuted in a handful of countries, but Google is now expanding support to five new markets.
Until now, Edit with Ask Photos was available in the US, Australia, India, and Japan. But in a recent community post, Google has announced that it is rolling out in Germany, the UK, France, Spain, and Italy. The rollout is live but gradual, so users in these regions may not see the feature appear immediately.
Once available, the feature will let users make changes to an image by describing edits instead of fiddling with sliders and tools manually. Prompts like “remove the glare,” restore this old photo,” or “remove the distractions in the background” will be enough to get the job done. This approach lowers the bar for photo editing, making it accessible for people who find traditional tools intimidating or time-consuming.
The European expansion is currently limited to Android. In the US, Edit with Ask Photos is also available on iOS, but Google has not said whether that will extend to the new markets. For now, iPhone users in Germany, the UK, France, Spain, and Italy will need to wait for an update that Google has not yet committed to.
The expansion arrives shortly after Google added a Touch Up suite to the Photos app, bringing face retouching tools to the editor for the first time. The feature lets users smooth skin, whiten teeth, and brighten eyes directly inside the app, without needing a third-party editor.
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WhatsApp has long offered disappearing messages, but the feature has two notable limitations. It applies to all messages in the chat rather than individual messages, and the deletion timer starts from the moment a message is sent, regardless of whether the recipient has read it. WhatsApp is currently working to address both.
Earlier this year, it began testing an “After Reading” timer for disappearing messages that starts the deletion countdown only after the recipient opens the message. Now, WABetaInfo reports that it’s also testing view-once messages, which will let users send individual texts that become inaccessible after a single read.
Moving from an iPhone to an Android device has never been the smoothest experience. Apple did introduce some improvements with iOS 26.3, which let users move things like photos, messages, notes, contacts, passwords, and apps wirelessly. Google has now completely revamped the Android Switch, its migration tool, to make the process even more seamless for people making the jump from iOS to Android.
According to Paul Dunlop, Google’s product lead for Onboarding, Settings and Switching on Android, the company has worked closely with Apple to improve the migration experience on Android 17 devices. The update introduces a wireless-first transfer process, support for migrating more types of data, seamless Google Account and eSIM transfers, and new developer tools that can preserve app data when moving between platforms. Here are all the new features coming to Android Switch.
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