Two separate APK teardowns by Android Authority suggest Google Photos is preparing a pair of quality-of-life upgrades: smarter bulk management through Ask Photos and better handling of RAW images.

The bigger change is to Ask Photos, Google's natural-language assistant inside the app. Code strings indicate it could soon execute bulk deletions and batch edits from a single prompt — turning library cleanup from a tedious multi-select chore into a one-line request. For users with years of accumulated screenshots and duplicates, that's the kind of feature that changes how the app gets used day to day.

The second teardown points to a dedicated section for RAW photos, making unprocessed shots easier to locate instead of leaving them scattered through the main timeline. It's a smaller change, but a meaningful one for the growing number of phone photographers shooting RAW on flagship hardware.

The usual teardown caveat applies: features found in app code can ship late, change shape, or never launch at all. But both moves fit Google's recent pattern of threading AI assistance and pro-user tools deeper into Photos, and neither would be surprising to see announced officially in the coming months.