Google Photos now has its personal model of Spotify Wrapped

The Google Photos app is rolling out a throwback expertise that highlights a few of your most memorable moments from this yr. The “2024 Recap” presentation characteristic introduced at present combines a group of pictures and insights with graphics and cinematic results that summarize what customers have been doing during the last 12 months — an analogous idea to Spotify Wrapped.

The 2024 Recap insights embrace data like what number of pictures you snapped, the longest picture streak size, most photographed colours, who you took probably the most pictures of, and the folks you smiled probably the most with. Google says that “choose customers within the US” who’ve Gemini enabled within the Photos app may opt-in to obtain a model of Recap that provides personalised captions highlighting the “two largest moments out of your yr.”

The Recap will seem within the Google Photos Memories carousel all through December earlier than relocating to the picture grid in January, and will be shared to messaging and social media apps. There are some caveats although — Recap is just obtainable to Photos customers who’ve the Face Groups setting enabled, which makes use of facial recognition to determine and group comparable faces collectively. This characteristic has some regional restrictions, so the end-of-year highlights gained’t be obtainable globally.