Google Lens is an app announced by Google during Google I/O 2017, designed to bring up relevant information using visual analysis.
Features
Google Lens scans the photo of business cards, books, landmarks and buildings, paintings in a museum, plants or animals, and flyers and event billboards. When you use Lens on a photo that has phone numbers or an address, you can automatically save this information as a contact on your phone, while events will be added to your calendar and make out our effort to search for the thing and makes it fast as well.
Launch
- Google lens was initially announced on October 4,2017 and its preview came installed on Google Pixel 2.
- Later in November 2017, Google started rolling out into Google Assistant for Pixel and Pixel 2 smartphone. A preview of lens is also implemented into google photo for Pixel phones.
- On March 2, Google officially released Google Lens to Google photos for non-pixel
smartphones.(only for Android) - Later on March 16, Google announced to roll out the update for iOS devices too.
How to get and use this on your Device?
- Go and download Google Photos from your iOS or Android app store.
- Select any photo and tap on it and click on the Google Lens icon there.
And now you are able to check the details Google provides, or take an action. Google notes that if your web and app activity setting is switched on, your Google Lens activity will be saved to your Google account. You can delete the history of same from your google account too.
