How to use the Pixel 8’s Best Take to pick your favorite faces in group photos
Google Photos has a clever new feature for your group photos. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge
There are a few things you can always depend on in photography, and one is that someone will always be blinking or making a weird face in a group photo. You can try taking 20 photos in rapid succession to increase your chances that everyone will look their best in one of them, but that’s not foolproof — and you’ll often wind up with a photo you’re only sort of happy with. But what if you could remix your group shots with the best faces from different photos in your series?
That’s the theory behind Best Take, Google Photos’ new — and somewhat controversial — editing tool.
Best Take is available now on the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, but we expect it to come to older Pixel phones sometime in the near future. The way it works is…
