You may not have noticed – we didn’t – but it seems that, a couple days ago, Google removed casting from the Google Photos Android app on a temporary basis. This was due to “stability reasons,” according to Photos community manager Ben; however, as of v2.8.1, the feature seems to have returned, with multiple Android Police team members seeing this on their personal devices.
We’ll probably never know what ‘stability reasons’ means in this context, but it can be assumed that it meant casting a photo was causing the Chromecast to crash or otherwise have some kind of error.
Google removed casting from Google Photos 2.8, but has added it back in 2.8.1 [APK Download] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.