Google Photos is finally getting an off switch for its annoying shimmer effect

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TL;DRGoogle Photos recently introduced a tool to easily transform your pics into stickers.The app highlights the outline of sticker content with a shimmering effect after viewing pics for a few seconds.Google is now working on an option that would let you turn this off.Sometimes app changes are controversial, with as many proponents as there are users who really seem to resent them. But then there are also those changes that pretty much nobody seems to like — and that feels like how we’d have to characterize the “shimmering” effect Google Photos uses to let us know when we can create a sticker from an image. If you’ve been hating on this design element since it first debuted, we’ve got some rather excellent news for you, as Google’s finally working on a way to turn it off.You’re reading an Authority Insights story. Authority Insights brings you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage from the Android Authority team that you won’t find anywhere else.