The Google+ app on your iPhone and iPad is about to get a little better with the addition of some fun new photo and video features that should help you reminisce about good times past.
Released Monday, the latest update to Google+ for iOS adds support for auto-generated Stories, a feature that first made its way to Android and the Web last month. Stories "combine your best photos and videos from a trip with the places you visited to create a beautiful, interactive timelines summarizing your adventure," Google's Todd Bogdog wrote in a Google+ post.
With the update, iOS users can now view, edit, and share their stories within the app. To see your stories, open the Google+ app and select Photos, then tap Stories from the menu at the top.
Besides that, the update includes some new Snapseed-inspired advanced photo-editing tools, letting you crop and rotate your images, as well as perfect them with filters and "1-tap enhancements" such as Drama, Retrolux, and HDR Scape.
"Add a personal touch to your photos, then easily share them with friends and family," Bogdog wrote. "As an added bonus: you can start editing on one device, continue on another, and revert to your originals at any time!"
The addition of new editing tools comes after Google last year acquired Nik Software, maker of the popular Snapseed photo editing and sharing app. The standalone Snapseed app is also available as a free download in the App Store.
The update comes as Apple yesterday previewed a revamped version of Photos for iOS 8, which adds some enhanced editing, organization, and search functionality, as well as the ability to access photos stored on iCloud from multiple iOS devices.
For more, see PCMag's roundup of The 11 Best iPhone Photo-Editing Apps along with our full reviews of Snapseed (for iPhone) and Google+ (for iPad).