Google Photos is a superb photo management and editing app. But now, Google might be planning to reserve certain editing tricks for Google one subscribers.

In the code for the latest update to Google photos, there are strings that clearly point to the app moving in this direction. The new update will be released in September.

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Google is already testing this approach with some people right now. Xda’s mishaal Rahman is the latest in a series of hidden code snippets.

A reader told us that Google Photos’ color pop feature is locked behind a Google one paywall. I reached out to Google for confirmation but have n’t heard back yet.

Google tells the verge it’s not locking the free’color pop’ tool behind a paywall. It’s simply offering a new version that can be used on more photos than before.

Color pop is a feature that continues to be available for anyone to use for photos with depth information. As a part of an ongoing roll out that began earlier this year, Google one members can apply the feature to even more photos of people.

Google would n’t tell us which other editing tools and features it might decide to exclusively offer to its subscribers, saying it had’nothing to share’.

Monthly subscriptions start at $ 1.99 per month (for 100GB of cloud storage spread across your Google services). The company recently announced that it’s adding a VPN feature for Google one subscribers on the $ 9.999/month (2TB storage) plan. But the notion that you soon might have to pay a recurring fee to unlock everything Google Photos has to offer is still frustrating.