Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos appears to be testing a redesigned Collections tab with a cleaner layout. The new UI reorganizes each collection into a scrollable section. Those sections can also be collapsed, and the app remembers your preferred layout.
It seems like Google Photos is one of the apps that the company is never fully satisfied with — constantly tinkering to optimize the experience. For example, it was only in February that we spotted Google testing some changes related to how you move around the app. It now looks like the Collections tab could be next in line for a major revamp.
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Right now, the Google Photos Collections tab is fairly busy. At the top, you’ve got shortcuts like Favorites and Trash, while the rest of the screen puts squares within squares as it orders things like Albums, Documents, and so on. It works well enough, but you don’t get much insight into what’s in each collection from the top-level view.