Earlier this month Google has announced the availability of Google Lens on all Appliances Android, even those that are not Pixel. This week he eventually started to possess and iOS devices, such as iPhone and iPad.
Google Lens is a photo recognition tool and comes embedded in Google Photos. The app can give you additional information about what you see in a photo.
Google Lens is essentially an optics tool searchs. So if you visit a new city and want to know the name of a certain building, take a picture of it, and run Google Lens and it will recognize it.
Visual search spoken by Google Lens works with books, artwork, plants, animals and more. It also works with business cards, brochures and billboards, offering links to events or allowing you to save the data of the company in your contact list.
The feature was released for the first time last year on Google Pixel.
To get it on your iPhone, make sure you have the latest version installed version of Google Photos. You can download the latest version of the app from the link below (you need version 3.15).
Download and test the Google Photos app on your iOS device
After installation, you can start the application and select a photo. In the uploaded photo, you will need to press the Google Lens button.
Once the app recognizes what's in the photo, it will give you any additional information about it theme of your photo. It doesn't work for everything though as the database goes on and on collecting information (something Google knows how to do very well) but when it does it's awesome.
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