Google Photos Rolls Out New Video Editing Tools on iOS

[MacRumors]

Google has rolled out a suite of new video editing features for Google Photos on iOS that adds granular controls for editing things such as brightness, contrast, and exposure. In addition to the fine-tune controls, users will now have the ability to crop, change the perspective, and add filters to videos directly within the app.

In September, Google announced a redesigned editor for Google Photos that puts machine learning editing suggestions right in the center of the app UI alongside larger tabs to access editing controls directly. Google says this new redesigned experience will be available on iOS in "the coming months."

The new video editing tools themselves are already available on iOS according to Google thanks to a server-side roll-out, given the app was last updated more than two months ago. Google Photos remains a part of a handful of Google apps on the App Store that have gone for weeks without a proper update.

Google Photos was last updated in December and some have theorized that the lack of updates is due to Apple's new privacy "nutrition labels" that educates users on what data an app collects about them and whether it shares the data with 3rd parties. On December 8, Apple began requiring all app updates submitted to the App Store to include the labels and the absence of updates for Google apps seemingly suggests an unwillingness from Google to reveal its privacy practices.

Google said at the start of January that it would update its apps with the new privacy labels in the week following the statement, but so far many of its most popular apps such as Google Maps, Google Search, Google Meet, and Google Photos remain without an update or labels.

Article Link: Google Photos Rolls Out New Video Editing Tools on iOS

 

[dannyyankou]

Google is being very shady with these server-side updates. What are you afraid of Google?

 

[MrTechAdvice]

STILL no Privacy labels???? lol

 

[peneaux]

Now that the free storage is almost over, why would I put my photos for Google to crawl them?

 

[wfulle]

Google just update your apps your risking privacy more by not giving us updates.

 

[GeoStructural]

This app was great when storage was free. Funny how now that it is not it has better features.

Something that annoyed me is that photos used to be public by default when this service first started, I hated Google that day, who in their right mind would want their entire photo library open? Who at Google thought we wanted that... and worst of all, they connected them with a Google+ profile I never created. They quickly changed this though.

Right now I also dislike that they do not let you use the app unless you give them access to ALL photos, you cannot choose "Select photos", it has to be all or nothing.

When you open a picture, the app can tell you the brand of the clothes you are wearing, it is so creepy how I accidently clicked on a selfie and it told me exactly the brand and price of my watch and my glasses.

I do not recommend this app. I love other Google products, just not this one.

 

[SW3029]

Yeah, this just proves it. Google is terrified of Apple's new privacy label requirements. A server-side rollout for all new tools? The app still not updated since before Apple's privacy labels came into effect? This is just insane. Google is a joke. They are scared $#!+less of Apple's privacy labels.

 

[Ursadorable]

Ahh, another Google data harvesting app.

 

[heov]

Google is being very shady with these server-side updates. What are you afraid of Google?

Lost revenue. Google will continue to play hard ball as consumers still use their services.

Let's see if Apple has the balls to block Google apps. I doubt it.

 

[heov]

Yeah, this just proves it. Google is terrified of Apple's new privacy label requirements. A server-side rollout for all new tools? The app still not updated since before Apple's privacy labels came into effect? This is just insane. Google is a joke. They are scared $#!+less of Apple's privacy labels.

Why do you think Apple isn't blocking these circumventing measures? They blocked Epic.

Perhaps Apple is afraid? I wonder who would be the bigger loser if Google didn't exist in iPhones?

 

[now i see it]

I can see Android aficionados using this app since they're already scalp deep in the Google Tracking Cesspool - but an iOS user? Stay away

 

[SirithX]

Lost revenue. Google will continue to play hard ball as consumers still use their services.

Let's see if Apple has the balls to block Google apps. I doubt it.

Why would they? Apple collects between $8 billion and $12 billion in payments from Google so Google can be the default search engine. That means Google's partnership alone accounts for between 17% and 26% of Apple's services revenue last fiscal year.

 

[EatinPonies]

This seems to be a good place to ask: if you're using Google Photos right now, what are your plans in July? Will you pay for storage? Will you switch to another app/service?

 

[SirithX]

This seems to be a good place to ask: if you're using Google Photos right now, what are your plans in July? Will you pay for storage? Will you switch to another app/service?

No change for me. I still have plenty of space, I subscribe to both the Google One 100 GB plan ($1.99/month) and also the iCloud 50 GB plan ($0.99/month). All photos on Google though.

 

[kiensoy]

Nice new features. I remember I saw the Android version supported video stabilization. I hope that comes to iOS.
EDIT: Never mind, I just saw the update include stabilization!

 

[Osxguy]

I still dont understand this trust in google.. Why use google photos when you really have a kick ass photo organization and editing system built in? Also, I still dont trust google... I know I shouldn't' trust any corporation... Still if you are on a Macrumors site and still using google photos... there are some weird issues you have..

 

[phalseHUD]

Paranoid indeed...

I should add that in another thread, someone questioned if I trusted anyone, when I said I wasn’t sure if I trust Apple and that I definitely didn’t trust Google. Reading this thread justifies for me why I’d never trust Google

 

[Ursadorable]

I wonder who would be the bigger loser if Google didn't exist in iPhones?

If Apple purged Google services from my iPhone, I wouldn't even notice. The worst would mean I'd be using Startpage or DuckDuckGo as my search engine in Safari. Oh wait, I already am!

 

[heov]

Why would they? Apple collects between $8 billion and $12 billion in payments from Google so Google can be the default search engine. That means Google's partnership alone accounts for between 17% and 26% of Apple's services revenue last fiscal year.

Exactly! Google will continue to avoid the labels, push server side updates circumventing them, and Apple will be fine with it.

 

[dba415]

If Apple purged Google services from my iPhone, I wouldn't even notice. The worst would mean I'd be using Startpage or DuckDuckGo as my search engine in Safari. Oh wait, I already am!

Google made Apple what it was today. People couldn't believe they could get YouTube on their iPhones in 2007, or find sushi using Google Maps when Apple didn't have any type of maps software.

You better believe that if Google had made Android the only mobile OS with native Youtube, Gmail, Maps back in 2007 Apple would be dead...

 

[Paddle1]

Why do you think Apple isn't blocking these circumventing measures? They blocked Epic.

Perhaps Apple is afraid? I wonder who would be the bigger loser if Google didn't exist in iPhones?

I would assume because server-side updates are allowed. Adding a secondary payment method to go around the App Store (which Epic did) is not allowed.

 

[Bawstun]

Yeah, this just proves it. Google is terrified of Apple's new privacy label requirements. A server-side rollout for all new tools? The app still not updated since before Apple's privacy labels came into effect? This is just insane. Google is a joke. They are scared $#!+less of Apple's privacy labels.

They’re not exactly *scared* but for all the long ways Google has come as a company, ad revenue is still their bread and butter. Without it they won’t be a company forever...

 

[amartinez1660]

I would assume because server-side updates are allowed. Adding a secondary payment method to go around the App Store (which Epic did) is not allowed.

It was my understanding, and please someone correct me if I’m wrong, that you cannot embed an application with full interpreted scripting languages support, for the most part, since it that would allow changing the app behavior completely later on...

It is supposed to be ok if it’s used as data or minor things like Lua tables/dictionaries or given a pass for quite specific tools like Codea (which is an IDE and can even make App Store compatible games) but a full blown video editor added? How does that even gets server pushed, hard to believe that’s just a different code path enabled that has existed all this time, does it even work offline with videos/images already locally stored?