What happened? Google Photos is launching its 2025 Recap, a personalized time capsule that uses Google’s Gemini model to sift through your photos and shape them into a summary of your year. Not only does it showcase your best moments by highlighting hidden trends and quirky stats, but it even shows how obsessed you were with selfies.
- Gemini searches your library to identify themes, milestones, trips, and things you’ve photographed frequently.
- You’ll get familiar stats like your top people and total photos, plus a new selfie count for 2025.
- Recap is located in the Memories Carousel and pinned to the Collections tab throughout December.
Why should I care? Recap pulls out memorable photos and moments from your year and packages them into fun images. You can see who appears most often in your photos, how many shots you took in total, and how many selfies you took, counted separately, which is calculated using facial recognition.
- Gemini looks not only at faces and dates, but also at the content of your photos to identify your outstanding hobbies and your “one true passion.”
- This time you can also hide specific people or individual photos from your summary and then regenerate them so that they are no longer included in the updated version.
- The summary can be exported to CapCut using exclusive Google Photos templates, allowing you to customize the video before sharing.
Okay, what’s next? Google is also working on tools that could help eliminate blemishes in portraits while making it easier to creatively reimagine old memories with new editing options. The company is even experimenting with fun ideas like using AI to incorporate your face into classic memes and retro styles.
Most people take thousands of photos and rarely look at them again. Google Photos Recap helps you rediscover the story of your year, creating a sophisticated highlight reel that you can easily save or share.
