- Google is working on some big UI changes for Photos, including Material 3 Expressive elements.
- We’re also seeing work on a new interface for more prominently indicating what’s going on with backups.
- Those banners now include an actual ETA on how long until your backups are done.
What’s the most valuable thing on your phone? Sure, the phone itself is probably worth a whole chunk of change, but that’s replaceable. For a whole lot of us, it’s probably the photos we capture with our cameras — and the memories they represent — that we’re most afraid of losing. That’s exactly why cloud backup solutions like the one that Google has baked into its Photos app are so popular, affording us some much-appreciated peace of mind. Right now, we’re looking into some work Google’s been up to that appears to do a better job at communicating just how Photos is managing our picture backups.