Google Photos Will Soon Help You Clean Your Photo Library

Ever found yourself scrolling through hundreds of blurry, duplicate, or just plain unnecessary photos? If so, you’ll probably like what’s coming. Google Photos may soon get a lot smarter at helping you clean up your photo library. That’s what a recent APK teardown suggests, according to the folks over at Android Authority.

Google Photos is testing a smarter way to clean your library

Google Photos already includes a “Manage storage” tool that highlights large files, blurry shots, and screenshots to help users free up space. Now, a new feature called “assisted deletion” appears to be in the works, and it could make that process smarter by recommending even more photos to delete, especially after you’ve already started cleaning up manually.

As spotted in Google Photos app v7.35 by Android Authority, strings of code point to a new prompt that surfaces once you’ve deleted a certain number of images. The app will then suggest additional deletions under a banner labeled “Clean up your library,” along with a message saying, “We found some photos you might want to delete.”

Users will be able to review these suggestions through a new “Review suggestions” feature. If the suggestions miss the mark or feel unnecessary, there will be an option to turn the feature off completely in the settings.

Google hasn’t officially announced assisted deletion, and it’s not live in the current public release. Google may still be testing the feature internally or planning a gradual rollout. If it launches, it could help solve a common problem: cluttered photo libraries full of near-duplicates, bad angles, and forgotten screenshots.

For people who’ve backed up years of photos and rarely clean them out, assisted deletion could be a low-effort way to reclaim storage and keep things organized without needing to scroll through everything manually.