Tech Desk 
Jul 14, 2024
In a week following the unravelling of top-tier Galaxy AI-backed gadgets at the globally acclaimed Galaxy Unpacked event 2024, Gadinsider feels fortunate to have discovered a relatively less significant yet remarkable development in the technology landscape.
Courtesy of Android Police, who, while citing sources familiar with the matter, dug deep into it and reflected in great detail on the discreetly undergoing progress of an Instagram Stories-like feature inside the Google Photos app.
Called My Week, the purported Google Photos feature has also a few more times been leaked before, but with very scarce availability of insights around its capabilities and functionalities.
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My Week feature is a validation for Google's pursuit of a feature that does more or less the same as Instagram Stories, inventing something more appropriate for social media users' vast-spread network of friends and family.
With every aspect seeming sound enough to come on par with Meta-owned Instagram, the Google Photos' My Week app appears incapable of nicely handling the efficiently and smoothly interconnected social connection network.
However, Google is said to be employing an invite-only manner of expansion, a strategy it opted for in the early days of Gmail, long before it became a household name. With a handful of people accessing the Instagram Stories-like feature, Google aims to target a wider audience by snowballing those fortunate folks.
Another objective tied to this feature which Google seems cocksure of is its plans to outrun Instagram Stories, with its immense assimilation to the shared albums reportedly coming as a treat.
