Google adds Photos workflows to Gemini Spark

Google is gradually enabling eligible U.S. users to run multi-step Google Photos workflows through Gemini Spark. The experimental agent no longer just finds media: it can organize photos and videos, produce edited copies, create albums and carry out recurring tasks.

The Google Photos workflow documentation says Spark can search and curate media, enhance or stylize images, make collages and videos, and create private or shared albums. It can also send shared-album links through connected apps, pull text out of images for documents or later tasks, and combine what a photo shows with other services, checking an event pictured in a photo against Google Calendar availability, for example. The expansion adds another consumer workflow to Gemini’s growing role across Google products.

Workflows can also run on a schedule, assembling a monthly highlights album or sorting receipts on a recurring basis. One request becomes a sequence of steps rather than a single retrieval or an answer about an image.

Access is still narrow. Google says the Photos workflows are rolling out gradually in English through the Gemini mobile and web apps, to eligible users who are at least 18 and located in supported parts of the United States, and Google Photos has to be connected to Gemini Apps. The general Spark requirements add a personal Google Account, enabled Keep Activity and a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription; work and school accounts are not supported. Google has not given a rollout completion date, a full list of excluded U.S. regions or any usage figures.

Google says Spark asks permission before actions such as creating a shared album or sending an email. New albums are private by default and need permission before they are shared. An edit does not overwrite the original; Spark saves an edited copy to Google Photos. Google describes Spark as experimental and says users should supervise its work because it can make mistakes.