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TL;DR Code found via an Android Authority teardown suggests Google could bring Ask functionality to Moments in Google Photos.
The code snippet hints at “Ask” capabilities in Stories, which likely refers to Moments.
This comes after Google has aggressively integrated the Ask feature in the Photos app, much to the chagrin of some users.
Google introduced Ask functionality in Google Photos in 2024, and the company recently replaced the app’s classic search tool with this AI-driven Ask feature. Now, it looks like the company might bring Ask capabilities to another area of Google Photos.
We dug into a recent version of Google Photos for Android (v7.59) and found a code snippet hinting at Ask functionality coming to “stories.” In other words, this AI-driven search feature could be coming to your Moments albums in Google Photos. Check out the relevant snippet below.
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More specifically, the snippet contains two mentions of the term “askinstories”. It also contains the word “prototype,” which suggests that this integration might be an internal experiment or an early test. So you probably shouldn’t expect this feature to launch soon.
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