First look: Here’s how Google Photos’ new Redact tool will work

89. The tool sits in the Markup section next to Pen, Highlighter, and Text, and offers three redaction styles: Mosaic, Mosaic Light, and a noise-based Blur. The feature is still in development with no public rollout in sight, but this hands-on demo shows Google has gone from a broken button to a functional feature.

Google Photos’ Redact tool has moved from a string buried in the code to something we could actually tap, and we’ve got the demo to prove it. ” Back then, the button crashed the app the moment it was tapped, leaving the actual redaction method a mystery. 89, and we managed to enable it ahead of its release to put it through its paces.

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