These news are for the small-annoyance crowd, the people who actually notice when a tiny feature quietly disappears. Google Photos users are reporting that drag to select, the feature letting you drag your finger across photos to pick multiple at once, has stopped working for some of them.
If you're not familiar, here's how it works normally. You long-press a photo to start multi-select. Then you drag your finger across the grid, and every photo you touch gets selected. Fast, simple, exactly what you want when you're cleaning out a camera roll full of duplicates.
Right now, the drag part just isn't doing anything for some people. Long-press still enables multi-select, sure. But dragging your finger just scrolls the screen up and down. So you're stuck tapping photos one by one. That kind of defeats the whole purpose.
Summary
- Google Photos users report that drag to select has stopped working on some devices.
- The feature is confirmed missing on Pixel, Galaxy, and OnePlus phones.
- Long-pressing still triggers multi-select, but dragging no longer selects additional photos.
- The bug does not appear to affect tablets or iPhones running Google Photos.
- Google hasn't commented, and the issue looks accidental rather than intentional.
Here's the thing though, this doesn't look like Google removing something on purpose. Drag to select still works fine on tablets, and some users say it's missing on their phone but working on their iPad. That's a pretty clear sign of a bug slipping into a specific build, not a deliberate design change.
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As you can understand, the reason this is worth flagging isn't the feature itself. It's a small convenience, nobody's life is ruined here. It's more that Google keeps shipping these little regressions lately. Tiny things breaking quietly, zero explanation. Annoying alone. Adds up over time.
"Considering that drag to select still works on a tablet, we are left to conclude that the removal of the feature in the Google Photos app was not done on purpose." — the clue that turns this from a redesign into just another bug.
To be honest, I'd rather Google slow down and ship fewer surprises than keep fixing accidental breakage after the fact. If you've lost drag to select too, you're not imagining it, and you're definitely not alone. Anyone else feel like these small bugs are becoming a monthly thing now?
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