{"id":30987,"date":"2022-07-31T07:35:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T07:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/google-photos-appearing-in-chrome-new-tab-page\/"},"modified":"2022-07-31T07:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T07:35:45","slug":"google-photos-appearing-in-chrome-new-tab-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/google-photos-appearing-in-chrome-new-tab-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Photos appearing in Chrome New Tab Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As of late, Google has been working to add more features to Chrome&#8217;s New Tab Page and the latest example is Google Photos integration.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath the Google logo, search field, a 4\u00d72 grid of page favicons, some users are seeing a \u201cFrom your Google Photos\u201d promo card: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>See memories of your favorite people and more<\/p>\n<p>Start exploring your memories from Google Photos, whenever you&#8217;re signed in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSee memories\u201d will turn on this integration and show three memories.  Like at the top of Google Photos, these rotate and differ by user.  I&#8217;m seeing \u201cSimilar shots\u201d and memories from several years ago. <\/p>\n<p>A tap opens Google Photos to the fullscreen memory viewer, while the New Tab Page card updates to show a different one.<\/p>\n<p>The overflow menu in the top-right corner lets you quickly remove this card and visit settings.  Open \u201cCustomize this page\u201d and visit the \u201cCards\u201d section.  There&#8217;s also Background, Shortcuts, and Color and theme.  It presumably swaps position with the unified shopping item as relevant.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re seeing this Google Photos integration on the latest ChromeOS beta (version 104), but it&#8217;s not widely rolled out in the stable channel of the Chrome browser.  The following flag will let you enable it ahead of time:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>chrome:\/\/flags\/#ntp-photos-module<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"h-9to5google-s-take\">9to5Google&#8217;s Take<\/h2>\n<p>If Google wants to make NTP a better landing page (remember iGoogle?), a visual redesign to reduce scrolling would be beneficial.  As is, the company logo takes too much space, while the search field continues to feel pointless given the Omnibox (address bar).  Everything should fit in one screen and be highly glanceable.  It&#8217;s also surprising that Google Discover has never appeared on the desktop web.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-more-on-chrome\">More on Chrome:<\/h2>\n<p><em>Thanks Encestral Z!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> more.<\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>Check out 9to5Google on YouTube for more news:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- youtube embed --><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pixel 6a vs. Nothing Phone (1): BUDGET BATTLE!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qv0wI0rFhfw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of late, Google has been working to add more features to Chrome&#8217;s New Tab Page and the latest example is Google Photos integration. Underneath the Google logo, search field, a 4\u00d72 grid of page favicons, some users are seeing a \u201cFrom your Google Photos\u201d promo card: See memories of your favorite people and more &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/google-photos-appearing-in-chrome-new-tab-page\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Photos appearing in Chrome New Tab Page<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5779,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/google-photos-debuts-new-pop-up-ui-for-library-management\/","url_meta":{"origin":30987,"position":0},"title":"Google Photos debuts new pop-up UI for library management","date":"July 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Google Photos is in the midst of changing up its UI yet again, this time with a revamped pop-up UI for sharing photos and videos directly from the library. 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