{"id":194580,"date":"2026-03-10T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/after-complaints-google-will-make-it-easier-to-disable-gen-ai-search-in-photos\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:00:16","slug":"after-complaints-google-will-make-it-easier-to-disable-gen-ai-search-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/after-complaints-google-will-make-it-easier-to-disable-gen-ai-search-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/03\/google-backtracks-on-ai-search-in-photos-adds-toggle-for-fast-classic-search\/\">After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/03\/google-backtracks-on-ai-search-in-photos-adds-toggle-for-fast-classic-search\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/03\/google-backtracks-on-ai-search-in-photos-adds-toggle-for-fast-classic-search\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 14:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"arstechnica.com\">arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google&#8217;s extensive integration of AI, particularly its Gemini technology, has caused significant annoyance for users, especially in Google Photos.<\/li>\n<li>Google Photos initially launched a Gemini-powered search feature called Ask Photos in 2024, which aimed to enhance natural language search but proved to be slow and error-prone.<\/li>\n<li>User feedback overwhelmingly criticized the Ask Photos feature due to its inefficiency compared to the traditional search method.<\/li>\n<li>As a response to the complaints, Google has decided to reinstate a simple toggle allowing users to switch back to the classic search experience.<\/li>\n<li>Despite pausing the full rollout of Ask Photos in summer 2025 for improvements, the new feature remains imperfect, reinforcing the decision to revert to the previous search system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/03\/google-backtracks-on-ai-search-in-photos-adds-toggle-for-fast-classic-search\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/03aizylUVApdyLAIku1AvRV-39.v1605559903.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194582,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194580\/revisions\/194582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}