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  • How To Let Google Photos Set Randomised Wallpapers That Pull Images From Your Memories

    Google Photos is rolling out a new update for Android users which brings a random wallpapers feature to Android phones. The new feature will allow users to set randomised, rotating wallpapers, which make use of the saved photos on a user’s smartphone. The new feature comes with version 5.22 of Google Photos and the update will be rolled out automatically for all users.

    The new rotating wallpapers on Google Photos can be activated by going into the wallpaper settings of an Android smartphone. The randomised wallpapers can be activated in the live wallpapers section in Android smartphones. There will be a ‘Memories’ option that users will have to select in order to allow their smartphones to start pulling photos from the Memories section of Google Photos to cycle between them as a background. With this feature, Google will define what counts as a memory, based on its machine learning algorithms. This means users won’t be able to decide what all images will show up as background wallpapers.

    Users will need to go into the wallpaper settings of the Android smartphone, then select live wallpapers. In live wallpapers, there will be an option called ‘Memories.’ Once a user selects Memories as their live wallpaper, the phone will start pulling photos from the Memories section of Google Photos.

    Google is ending the free, unlimited photo storage on Google Photos on June 1, 2021. The company had earlier announced that post June 2021, users will be charged for using over 15GB of storage.

  • End-to-end encryption in Google Messages too

    Google said on Thursday that end-to-end encryption is being issued for Google Messages. The tech veteran said that with the add-to-end encryption being issued to Android users, it will be difficult for anyone (even for government investigative agencies) to read the content of the messages.

    Announcing the rollout, Google product lead Drew Ronnie said, “End-to-end encryption ensures that all third parties, including Google, cannot read your phone and the messages being sent to other people.” . ‘

    Explain that this step of Google is a part of the upgrade from SMS to Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard. This feature will now be available for people sending messages through Android devices. Along with end-to-end encryption, Google’s messaging application has added additional privacy and security features. But in the meantime, government investigation agencies around the world are raising the question that with strong encryption it can be easy for criminals to hide their activity.

    It is worth noting that digital rights activists have been supporting strong encryption for quite some time. So that governments and cyber criminal users cannot be spied on. But governments have warned many times that technology helps criminals to escape investigation.