Amazon Photos for Android has been revamped to make app navigation and picture and video sharing simpler for users, putting the service in line with a similar upgrade that went out to iOS smartphones about a year ago.
Amazon Picture customers may now search a photo gallery from the home screen alone, highlighting that navigation choices are all “within a thumb’s reach.” Swiping up inside the Amazon Photographs gallery on your smartphone will reveal a new control panel with customised capabilities for filtering photos by item, location, or year.
Tapping the Amazon Smile logo in the top-left corner of the gallery page will also provide users with access to options such as customer accounts, uploads, and prints, while tapping the “Paper aeroplane” button in the top right will take users to a page where images and videos can be privately shared with friends and family.
Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited free full-resolution picture storage and 5GB of video storage on Amazon Photos, which can be seen on devices like the Echo Show and Fire TV. For current customers, the Amazon Photos Android app will be immediately updated to reflect these changes.
These capabilities aren’t new to iOS users, but they provide Amazon Photos on Android smartphones a much-needed boost in order to compete with competing services like Google Photos, which doesn’t have a similar free storage tier. Google, on the other hand, has released multiple upgrades this year, including enhancements to libraries and sharing, as well as a revamped Memories feature, in the same amount of time that Amazon has taken to deploy these old changes to Android devices.
