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How to Use iPhone and Android Devices with Google Lens

For a variety of reasons, Google Lens is unquestionably among the greatest applications available for your phone. It is particularly intriguing because of its strong search engine skills and Google's integration of language translation, image recognition, and arithmetic problem solving for homework. Here's how to use Google Lens on an iPhone or Android device, if you're curious.

Use Android with Google Lens

The Google Lens app is a component of the Google app and is preloaded on the majority of contemporary Android handsets. Try getting it from the Google Play Store if it's not already on your Android smartphone.

  1. Launch the Google Lens app or install it from the Play Store if you don’t have it already.
  2. Give it the required camera permissions when it asks for them.
  3. If you want to search for something on the web, point your camera toward that object.
  4. Tap the shutter button with the magnifying glass icon on it.
  5. You can also select from your existing photos by tapping the stack icon beside the shutter button.
  6. Scroll down to view the search results and see if they’re relevant. You can tap on a specific results to get more details on the searched item.
  1. Similarly, you can select different options at the bottom based on what you want to do.
  2. For example, the Translate option provides real-time language translations. Plus, you can listen to the translation as well.
  3. Similarly, you can select Homework and point the camera toward a math problem, and the app will show you the solution.

Alternatively, you may open the Google app and open it by tapping the Lens icon. The Photos app also supports Google Lens. The lens choice is one of the options at the bottom that you may discover while viewing a certain picture. In addition, it works with Chrome as well and opens Lens inside the Google app.

Use the iPhone's Google Lens app.

For iOS devices, the App Store does not include the Google Lens app. On the other hand, you may access Google Lens on an iPhone and

  1. Launch the Google app or install it from the App Store if you don’t have it installed already.
  2. Tap the Lens icon from the search bar to launch Google Lens.
  3. Provide the app all the necessary permissions to proceed.
  4. Now point your camera toward the object you want to look up, and then tap on the shutter button from the bottom to start searching.

5. Google Lens has built-in translation and homework features in the Google app for iOS. You may utilize them in the same manner as we did on an Android device with Google Lens.

The Google Photos and Google Chrome applications on an iPhone allow you to use Google Lens in the same way as they do on Android.

That concludes how to use Google Lens on an iPhone or Android device. What is the frequency of your smartphone usage? You may wish to clear Google Lens search history from your phone if the response is "very often." Did this tutorial provide you further insight into how to use Google Lens on your phone? Tell us in the comments below.

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