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John Velasco

Google Photos could be getting Instagram-style text editing for video, but it’s missing one crucial thing

Google Photos app on a smartphone screen.

Google Photos has been getting its share of big updates of late, with Ask Photos joining its ever-growing arsenal of features just last month. A recent APK teardown by Android Authority of Google Photos for Android version 7.49 reveals that it could be adding Instagram-style text editing to videos soon.

Anyone who uses Instagram and TikTok already has access to text-editing tools that let them change the font, colors, and styles of the text they add to videos. This exact feature could be coming to Google Photos. The app teardown shows how users will be able to spruce their videos through different text options — such as selecting the color, styles, and even adding a background color to the text block.

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