Google Photos is arguably the best way to manage your ever-expanding media library. While Google Photos is a handy service for managing a lot of photos and videos, it has some annoying quirks, like the lack of a simple way to delete a file from an album. The feature has been available on the web for years, but for some reason it was missing from the mobile app.
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Google appears to have fixed this quirk in the Google Photos app for Android. There's now an option to directly trash photos from an album in the Android app. However, the option is only available for private albums. For shared albums, you'll still have to first remove the photos from the album, find them in your library, and then proceed to delete them from there. This limitation doesn't exist on the web, where you can move photos to the trash from a shared album.
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What's strange is that the ability to move photos directly to the trash in shared albums has been present in the iOS of the app for quite some time now. So it's unclear why Google didn't add this trivial feature to shared albums, and why it took so long to add the button for private albums to Android in the first place. Despite its late arrival, it's still a welcome change.
Information source: androidpolice.com
