Ente Photos 1.2 adds custom gallery grouping, advanced editor, and privacy mode

Ente Photos has just launched the version 1.2 update with customizable layouts and key performance improvements as part of a broader home gallery rewrite. Users can now group photos by day, week, or month, adjust the grid size, and navigate large collections more easily with a redesigned scrollbar featuring yearly markers and haptic feedback.

Scrolling is now smoother thanks to backend upgrades, and upcoming features like jump to date, swipe to select, mosaic layout, and similar photo stacking to make browsing and organizing even easier. There's also a new image editor that adds cropping with aspect ratio presets, ten filters, fine-tuning controls for brightness, contrast, saturation, and temperature, plus tools for freehand drawing and emoji sticker support.

Smart albums now use improved face detection to auto-add people to albums, even across collaborators, enabling seamless sharing. A local-first mode is in development for mobile, and more speed improvements are expected as machine learning operations shift to background processing.