Facebook has released a new update for its photo-sharing app. No, not Instagram, its other photo-sharing app: Moments.
First launched in June, Moments is a mobile app that lets you privately share photos from your Camera Roll with your Facebook friends. Facebook’s updated Moments app will now automatically create short music videos from your photo collection that you can share privately with your friends or post directly to Facebook.
The video montages resemble the digital flipbooks created by Flipagram, except without the rights to recognisable songs that Flipagram was able to secure this summer. Instead, Moments will use “about a dozen different background music options,” according to TechCrunch.
Moments is the latest service that promises you won’t ever have to manually sort through your vast photo collection ever again. The app uses various factors – from location to facial recognition – to organise photos taken at the same time or place, suggest which friends to share with, and stitch together video montages. The Google Photos app has similar features to organise and recognise photos. In addition, Google Photos automatically creates animated GIFs, panoramas, or collages out of similar photos.
Facebook has had mixed results in trying to populate our smartphones with its standalone apps. For example, Messenger is a hit, but most other Facebook apps have barely made a splash (remember Slingshot?).
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