'Finally' are shouting Android users as the free upgrade introduces a new photo feature

ANDROID owners have received a new feature from Google Photos that will help them keep their photos organized and their phones tidy.

The feature is called Photo Stacks and it essentially creates mini albums based on when the photos were taken.

It helps group similar photos taken in a short time, for example on the same day.

Photo Stacks organizes photos in a similar way to how Apple sorts photos in the For You section of its native Photo Album app.

Users can stack up to 100 photos on top of each other, Google told Android Authority.

It's important to note that photo stacks cannot organize images until the images are backed up first.

The feature does not work on locally saved images.

Google explains how to backup photos on a help page on its website.

Since the feature's launch in November, it has been available to iPhone owners and some Android users, such as Pixel phones.

But Google is now rolling out Photo Stacks on Google Photos for Android phones broadly, including Samsung handsets.

When users get the feature in your Google Photos app, they should see a pop-up window alerting them to its availability.

“Today I finally enabled the stacked photos in Google Photos,” said one user tweetedand added: “This rollout took forever.”

Enable photo stacks in Google Photos

Follow these steps to set up the Photo Stacks feature in Google Photos:

In most cases the function is activated automatically.

But manually switching it on only takes a few seconds.

• First, open the Google Photos app.
• Then go to Photos settings.
• Scroll to see the Preferences choice.
• Here you will find one Stack similar photos option that you need to enable.