Google updates Motion Stills app on Android, brings new editing feature and delete option

Google brought its GIF camera app, Motion Stills, to Android back in July. The app just got its first simple update. There are two new buttons in the Edit screen. One is the loop button, which as its name suggests will let you loop clips back and forth. Another new button is the Delete button. Fairly straightforward too, as it just lets you delete past recordings. To do that before, you would need to swipe left on the main screen.

If you’re not familiar with the app, Motion Stills tries to set itself apart with the app’s ability to stabilize your videos while you’re recording and it can either record for a few seconds or with its fast-forward mode, speed up and stabilize longer clips.

Source: Android Police

Google Photos shares Motion Stills features to iOS app

After releasing Motion Stills for iOS a few months ago, Google integrates some of its features in the Photos app. Motion Stills allowed you to create GIF-like moving images that had frozen backgrounds. Photos can now edit these Live Photos for you to make them more stable. After that, the app will let you keep the file as a video clip in your camera roll.

Google Photos on iOS also gets a new organizational features like being able to sort photos in albums chronologically and select thumbnails for the faces of your friends in People. The new features are set to head to Android and web versions of Google Photos as well.

Source: Engadget