Google Photos' perspective correction tool returns after disappearing months ago

It’s not often you see major companies reverting unpopular changes to their apps, but that’s exactly what Google’s doing to its cropping tools within Photos’ built-in editor.

According to a new post on Google’s support forums, the company is listening to feedback from its users on a couple of the changes made in this year’s Photos overhaul. The big one is the return of a tool that’s been MIA since this summer: the perspective tool. This option — which exists as part of the cropping tools — allows you to manually straighten objects within the frame. While it’s undoubtedly niche, you can find plenty of complaints over its exclusion across Reddit, with use cases ranging from properly photographing paintings to quickly cropping around covers of up-for-sale books.

With today’s announcement, the perspective tool is back in the Google Photos editor. You can find it by opening the cropping tools and selecting the perspective icon located in the top-right corner.

It’s not the only change Google’s making today, as it’s reverting its crop tools’ rounded corners back to its original 90-degree angles. You can see the curved corners in the image at the top of this page; in comparison, the new ones make it much easier to actually see the entirety of your image.

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Both of these changes appear to be live in the app on version 7.55.0.835314738, though as always, you might need to wait for a server-side push for these inclusions to appear on your device.