Google is reportedly bringing back an important Google Photos sharing feature after suddenly removing it without warning last year. This removal has left some users frustrated at the inability to easily share certain photos and videos using Partner Sharing, especially images taken with external cameras or created in other apps.

Following last year's rollout of Profile Discovery, Google Messages is again letting you manually choose the picture you want for contacts.

Google rolled out "profile sharing" in Messages. This well-meaning feature was supposed to make things easier for everyone by automatically using people's Google Account pictures in the app instead of using the contact photo you may have chosen for that contact prior.

Google Lens will no longer start up in your phone's gallery of local pics, and instead jump right to your camera's viewfinder.

With Circle to Search now handling on-device visual queries, Google Lens has been repositioned to focus on real-world search. Instead of opening to a gallery of existing photos, Lens now immediately launches the camera for instant visual search of your surroundings.

Now that we have Circle to Search, Google Lens has been updated so that it immediately starts the camera viewfinder upon launch.