Every time I open the wallpaper picker on my phone, I wonder why it doesn’t let me choose a local folder or Google Photos album as the source of photos to browse on my home screen. While this feature has not been added yet, a new integration between Photos and Android wallpapers is underway, but it only takes entries from your Memories, leaving you at the mercy of the algorithm. AI Photos and what he deemed worthy of “Memory.”

The option was added in version 5.22 of Google Photos. Once installed, you don’t need to open Photos. Just go to your phone’s wallpaper picker – the screenshots below are taken on a Pixel 4XL, but it should work on any Android device – and look for the live wallpapers option. . A new called Memories should be available.

Choose which will allow your preview and browse through different images from Google Photos memory before applying it. As you can see below, what you get is anyone’s guess. If you took a picture of a sofa in a store four years ago, you might see it. If you baked apples a year ago, you might get some too. These are all the random things the Photo Memories section throws at you.

Of course, you might be able to avoid this mess if you only take beautiful photos and / or archive the random and unnecessary ones, but I doubt everyone else does. This means that on most days, when there isn’t a specific annual event (birthday, holiday) where you would have a lot of cool and meaningful photos, you can’t really predict what Photos AI will adorn with. your home screen. It could be a funny picture, it could also be a photo of your ex, a deceased relative, or a meaningless photo of a document or thing.

If you feel adventurous enough to try this, you can grab Photos v5.22 from APK Mirror and try it out. I will wait until I can choose my favorites, an album or a specific person to try.

Google Photos
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