Google Photos will soon fix your average videos with a single tap ‘enhance’
While there are many video editing tools built into smartphones, it can take some skill to perform an edit that is pleasing to the eye. But Google Photos seems to be changing that.
Diving into an upcoming version of the Photos app, Android Authority contributor and code diver Assemble Debug found a feature called “Improve Your Videos,” and with a little work, he got it working. As you might guess from the name, the feature is used to enhance videos accessible through the Photos app with one tap.
Enhance Your Videos can automatically adjust the brightness, contrast, color saturation and other visual parameters for a selected video to deliver an edited version that should look better than the original, at least in Google’s eyes.
While this feature isn’t official yet, it may be somewhat familiar to Google Photos users, as there is already an option to enhance photos in the web and mobile versions of the service. In my experience, the enhancement option works quite well, although it is far from perfect and can overstate its improvements.
But it makes sense for Google to extend this enhancement feature to videos, especially in the TikTok era; go take a look at the Ny Breaking TikTok for news, opinions and reactions to the latest technology.
The nice thing about Enhance Your Video, according to Android Authority, is that all the processing takes place on the device, bypassing the need for an internet connection and cloud-based processing. Whether this will work on older phones without AI-focused chipsets remains to be seen.
Since Assemble Debug has made the Enhance Your Video feature active, it looks like it’s nearing an official rollout. We can expect to hear more about these and other upcoming Google features, as well as Android 15, at Google I/O 2024, which kicks off on May 14.