Google Photos has launched its annual Recap feature for 2025, allowing users to reflect on their year through a collection of memorable photos and statistics. The Recap, available throughout December, offers users a chance to review their photo collections, showcasing total photo counts, top people captured, and selfie totals, among other statistics.
Originally introduced in 2024, the Google Photos Recap has gained popularity as a tool for users to look back on their past year in photos. This year, we’re doing something revolutionary! We’re making Gemini, Google’s next-generation AI technology, a core part of your User Experience to enhance it even further. Gemini works to surface the most notable moments that users might want to relive, beautifully illustrating beloved hobbies and other time-honored highlights from users’ photo archives.
Every day in December, Google Photos will be sharing a special highlight from 2025! Now users can order their Recaps right from the app with a special feature clearly located at the top. The feature, which pairs catchy TikTok-style moments with artistic graphics and effects, has users hooked on this impactful new aesthetic. So they can share their Recaps right to WhatsApp Status. This new feature makes it easier to share these wonderful memories with your friends and family!
The roll-out of Gemini is a huge leap in what’s possible with Google Photos Recap. As their most visible new AI feature, this one’s leveraging the data-driven review trend made popular by other services such as Spotify Wrapped. Gemini powers Google Photos to deliver a richer, more customized experience. Thanks to a policy shift, users get a much more pleasant recap of their year in photos.
American users will be the first to experience these improvements as they browse through their 2025 photo albums! This AI technology powers some of the magic behind Recap to create an engaging, personalized Recap experience. As a result, it serves as a useful early test of Gemini’s powers in Google Photos.
