The Google Lens tool is great for quickly getting relevant information from photos. Now it’s a little easier to use if you’m a Google Photos fan. Our readers have noticed some new tools when you tap the Lens icon while viewing a single item in the official Google Photos app, or when scrolling down to use the panel with more information. It is difficult to determine when these features came into use, but it appears to be within the last few weeks.
If Google Lens can see clear text on your photo, it will be in blue as before. When you tap the selected text, you can translate it, copy it to another app, speak it aloud, or even transfer it to your Google-connected computer. All of this was previously available in the dedicated Google Lens app, but the new interface adjustments make these options easier to see in icons at the bottom right of the screen in Photos.
This broadening of Lens tools to other aspects of Google’s software empire has been going on for a while. Google has been injecting Lens bits into official Camera and Search apps for some time, and even hiding Easter eggs on its own product packaging.
Sources tell us that this new interface for text recognized in the Google Photos Library is fairly new, although exact dates or version numbers are not available to us. The enhanced traceability of Lens Features in Photos seems to be available to all or most users at this time. To view it, make sure you are using Photos and that Lens is installed.
