Google photos It is the application for storage and management of the most used images. Present in all mobiles Android by default and also used by many of iOSPhotos stands out for its ability to automatically support and organize the content of the users and also by bring memories of the past to the foreground.
By default, the app bombard the user with ‘prominent content’, ‘memory video’ or ‘Do you remember that day?’collections of images of the past that They are not always welcome by the user.
There may be several reasons, such as the presence of a dear person who is no longer in this world, people with whom they were related and lost, pets or, most irritating, former partners who do not suppose a pleasant memory. Something that can push one to feel a little Stalinthe protagonist of one of the most famous image manipulations in history.
This is the well -known photo of Joseph Stalin with Nikolai YezhovChief of the NKVD, the Soviet Secret Police. Taken in 1937, Yezhov fell out of favor during the great purge of the end of that decade and was taken prisoner, judged and executed. Stalin ordered to erase any yezhov trace from historical records, including photographs. Something similar to what I described George Orwell In his novel 1984with the operation of Truth Ministry. In 2025, that capacity no longer requires specialists in image editing, but It is available to anyone with Google Photos.
#Otd 1940: Nikolai Yezhov, The Soviet Nkvd Chief After Whom The Great Terror (Yezhovshchina) Is Named, The Greatest Peacetime Persecution in The History of The World, Which Killed Three Million People, was “Execouted”, The Famously Removed From Official Photographs with Stalin. pic.twitter.com/jup54jtlzi
– Kyle Orton (@Kyleworton) February 4, 2025
The app incorporates two recent tools that allow you to do it, without installing third -party apps, only with your mobile. Magic draftlaunched in 2021 for the Pixel and that reached all Android users in June 2024, and Hide faceswho did it two months later. We explain how to use them.
How to hide your ex’s face in Google’s memories photos
- Open Google photos.
- Touches in Collectionsin the menu at the bottom, and then in People and pets.
- Touch in the three points and select Hide the face in memories. From here, you have two options:
- Show less: The face of the selected person will not appear in individual photos, but it can still be shown in the group.
- Blocked: will eliminate the selected face of all the images shown in memories.
In this way, you will get Google not to show you in memories who you don’t want.
Don’t you want memories to be still appearing with your ex? Google photos has a function that solves it.
1️⃣ Vote collections> people and pets.
2️⃣Toca the 3 points and select “hide the face of memories”
3️⃣De your ex and goodbye to those awkward memories! 🚫 pic.twitter.com/78nsdradr– Google in Spanish (@googleespanol) Februry 20, 2025
How to delete your ex from the photos with Google Photos
You still prefer a more definitive solution and not only make you the Apaño in the memories section. In this case, you must use the Magic draft.
- Open Google photos.
- Touches in Edit and then in Magic draft.
- Select your ex and make that bad bug disappear from your digital life.