TL;DR
- Google Photos now lets you type prompts to control how your photos are turned into videos.
- The text prompts can be refined after your first pass, and Google will also offer suggestions.
- We previously spotted the custom prompt option in testing.
When Google first rolled out its AI photo-to-video tools in Google Photos, the idea was nice, but the execution could feel a little hit-or-miss. You could ask for subtle movement, or tap “I’m feeling lucky” and see what happens. Sometimes it worked as you expected. Other times, not so much. That’s now changing.
In a support page post, Google just introduced a text prompts element to the Photo to video feature. The new option gives you a say in how your pictures are animated instead of leaving everything up to the AI’s mood. Videos generated with the tool can also include audio by default, which should make the results feel a bit more finished when you share them.