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While all of that has been great, there’s one Google Photos feature I’ve been waiting months for. I had hoped to see it arrive in September, but we’re now almost in the third week of October, and it’s still nowhere to be found. At least, not on Android phones.
Months later, manual stacking is still an iPhone-only feature
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In late May, Android Authority reported that the Google Photos iOS app had quietly rolled out manual photo stacking. Photo stacking has been available in Photos since November 2023, but only automatically, with Google selecting which photos to include in a stack.
With manual stacking, you get to choose which photos you want stacked. Google’s automatic selections have always been hit-or-miss for me, so Google introducing a manual option was great news.
As I wrote about earlier this year, manual stacking in Google Photos is incredible. I love taking multiple pictures of the same scene, but I don’t love having half a dozen shots of the same picture cluttering my photo library — and Google’s automatic stacking is consistently inconsistent. That’s why being able to create my own photo stacks, as silly as it may sound, has been a miniature game-changer. I’ve felt freed up to take as many pictures as I want with the confidence that I can still keep my library organized exactly how I want it. It’s been great.
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However, as mentioned above, we first discovered manual stacking in the iOS version of Google Photos. It’s not uncommon for Google to initially roll out a new feature to only one platform, and at the time, we speculated that the Android app wouldn’t be far behind.
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