Google Photos Will Now Let You Archive Items

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Published 24 May 2017

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If your main photo viewer in Google Photos is getting cluttered, Google has a way to help clean that up without deleting content.

Droid-Life first reported that, beginning today, Google Photos has a new Archive feature that is rolling out to users. With it, you’ll be able to select photos or videos to remove from the primary photo viewer, and simply slot them in a different folder. This means you can clean up the primary camera roll without deleting photos. (The archived photos will still be present in albums, though.)

To make it work, users just need to select a photo or video, or multiple of each, and then select the menu at the top right of the screen. There’s a new archive option. Select that and your chosen photos and videos will be put in a separate archive folder. Or you can slide out the side-menu and tap on Archive, selecting photos afterwards.

The new feature begins rolling out today. A link to download Google Photos is available below.

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[via Droid-Life]