After 10 years, Google Photos may be getting this basic UI feature

• Google Photos may soon have a new display option for the built-in image editor. • Google is experimenting with a light theme in the image editor inside the Photos app. • While the editor has existed for over a decade — parallel to Google Photos — it has always had a dark theme, with no option to switch.

Google Photos has been around for over a decade and has offered a built-in photo editor throughout that duration. Even though its native photo editor wasn’t initially as sophisticated as Google Snapseed — it only received advanced editing features in 2020 — and did not have AI-backed editing chops until recently, one trait has always remained constant. That is the background color of the editor interface, which has always been dark gray.

Now, Google appears to have finally meditated