Important: If you have backup turned on, your edits will sync to your Google Photos account. To use some features, you must have backup turned on. Learn how to backup photos & videos.
If you’re a Pixel user, you can get more features in Google Photos. Learn about other editing features.
Tip: If you're looking for your editing features for Chromebook Plus, learn more about the Photos Android app for ChromeOS.
Use Google Photos features for Pixel devices
Use AI Enhance
Important:
- Your device must have at least 3 GB RAM and Android 8.0 and up.
- AI Enhance is currently only available for Pixel devices and in the US.
- On your device, open the Google Photos app
.
- Open the photo you want to edit.
- Tap Edit
AI Enhance.
- This option uses a combination of different tools to generate multiple results.
- You only need to choose one photo edit from the generated results.
- When you're finished, tap Save.
Other Photos features for Pixel devices
Edit your photos & videos in Google Photos
Best TakeImportant: This feature is available on Pixel 8 and later.
If someone blinks or looks away in your group photos, Best Take combines similar photos into one photo where everyone looks their best. You can choose your favorite facial expressions for everyone and create your own Best Take.
To edit a photo with Best Take:
- Open the Google Photos app
- Open a photo from a sequence of similar photos that includes one or more people.
- At the bottom, tap Edit
- You can scroll through the categories at the bottom to find “Best Take.“
- Tap on a face bubble to choose a different expression.
- When you’re satisfied, tap Done.
Important: This feature isn't available on tablets. It's only available on Pixel 8 and later.
To reduce unwanted sounds or to turn up sounds from videos, you can use Audio Magic Eraser on your Pixel phone.
- On your Pixel phone, open the Google Photos app
- Tap on the video you want to edit.
- At the bottom, tap Edit.
- Under "Video," tap Audio eraser.
- To have your phone automatically adjust the video for you, tap Auto.
- To manually adjust sounds, tap on a sound and adjust the slider.
- To adjust the volume of different speakers, adjust the slider for each speaker.
- At the bottom right, tap Save copy.
Tips:
- Before you save a video, you can test what it sounds like. On the video thumbnail, tap Play
.
- Sound options depend on your video. Not all options are available at the same time.
Important:
- This feature is available for Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
- This feature is not available for images with resolution higher than 12.5MP.
Zoom in on an existing photo to make the image more crisp and detailed. You can save the enhanced image as a high-resolution file.
- On your Pixel device, open the Photos app
- Tap on the photo that you want to edit.
- Tap Edit
- You can scroll through the options to find “Zoom Enhance.”
- Zoom in on a certain part of the photo that you’d like enhanced. For best results, zoom in closer to your subject.
- Tap Crop and enhance.
- For images from Pixel 8 Pro and 9 Pro that were highly zoomed, to apply the effect without cropping your photo first, tap Enhance details.
- To keep the enhanced photo, tap Save copy.
View your edited photos & videos in Google Photos
Add meYou can now be part of any group photo. Take the group photo, swap with someone to capture another photo, and join the group. The camera stitches together the two versions with the Add Me feature. Learn how to use Add me.
When you view photos created with Add me in the Google Photos app, they appear as a photo stack. In the photo stack, you can find the two original photos and the stitched photo. Learn more about photo stacks.
Tip: You can check AI info for photos you edited with the Add Me feature. Learn more about AI info.