Google Photos is set to add more AI to help you turn your pictures into videos (www.techradar.com)

Google Photos appears poised to expand its image-to-video capabilities with a full AI text prompt box, according to hidden code spotted by Android Authority. Today’s Photo-to-Video tool (rolled out in July to some users) offers limited presets like “subtle movement” and “I’m feeling lucky,” which let Google decide how to animate a still. The rumored upgrade would let users type descriptive instructions to control exactly how photos are transformed into short clips, increasing creative flexibility while still using Google’s Veo 2 animation model (not the newer Veo 3). The change matters because it underscores Google’s push to embed AI across its ecosystem—extending models like Gemini and Veo into consumer apps and devices—while giving nontechnical users more direct, prompt-driven control over content generation. Technically, relying on Veo 2 means results may not match the latest model’s fidelity, but a text-prompt UI would enable finer-grained directives (motion style, timing, camera moves) without needing separate editing tools. There’s no guarantee the hidden feature will ship broadly, but if released it would tighten competition with other multimodal offerings (e.g., OpenAI’s recent video tools) and raise practical questions about output quality, permissions for animated content, and how prompts are processed server-side.