{"id":8935,"date":"2025-10-17T02:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/googles-ask-photos-feature-isnt-available-in-texas-and-illinois\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:49:38","slug":"googles-ask-photos-feature-isnt-available-in-texas-and-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/googles-ask-photos-feature-isnt-available-in-texas-and-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Ask Photos feature isn&#8217;t available in Texas and Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">One of Google&rsquo;s Gemini-powered photo features is MIA in Texas and Illinois. The company confirmed to Engadget that Ask Photos is currently unavailable in the two states. It didn&rsquo;t say why. Google Photos&rsquo; Conversational Editing is reportedly missing in those states, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&ldquo;The ability to ask Photos to edit your images is not available to users in Texas and Illinois at this time,&rdquo; Google&rsquo;s statement to Engadget reads. &ldquo;We are working to determine how to make Ask Photos available to more users.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">As for why that is, we don&rsquo;t have confirmation. But the <em>Houston Chronicle<\/em>, which first reported the news, pointed to a pair of lawsuit settlements as a likely culprit. In 2022, Google settled an Illinois class action suit over Google Photos data privacy concerns for $200 million. Earlier this year, it settled one with Texas for $1.4 billion over collecting user data without permission.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_5bipqtialuknpfmlbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_9bipqtialuknpfmlbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The common theme in both settlements was biometric data collection. Lo and behold, both of the missing AI features require &ldquo;face grouping&rdquo; to be turned on. That Google Photos feature uses automated facial recognition to cluster pictures of the same person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The tricky part comes when state laws require informed consent for data collection. <em>9to5Google<\/em> notes that only the photographer &mdash; and not the many subjects of their pictures &mdash; have typically agreed to Google&rsquo;s terms and conditions. That creates a head-spinning legal conundrum that could have easily led Google to play it safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Ask Google Photos lets you type or speak queries about your picture library. For example, you could say, &ldquo;What are all the cities I visited last year?&rdquo; or &ldquo;Show me the best photo from each national park I&rsquo;ve visited.&rdquo; Meanwhile, Conversational Editing lets you tweak images using natural language. It launched with the Pixel 10 series in August and expanded to other Android phones in September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Google&rsquo;s Ask Photos feature isn&rsquo;t available in Texas and Illinois<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Google&rsquo;s Gemini-powered photo features is MIA in Texas and Illinois. The company confirmed to Engadget that Ask Photos is currently unavailable in the two states. It didn&rsquo;t say why. Google Photos&rsquo; Conversational Editing is reportedly missing in those states, too. &ldquo;The ability to ask Photos to edit your images is not available to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/googles-ask-photos-feature-isnt-available-in-texas-and-illinois\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Google&#8217;s Ask Photos feature isn&#8217;t available in Texas and Illinois&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}