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How to Use Google’s Circle for Search feature on your iPhone

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Circle to Search – Google’s new visual lookup feature introduced on the Samsung Galaxy S24 series and Pixel 8 series earlier this year – has made its way to many other smartphones over the past few months. Now iPhone owners can also use the Circle to Search feature through the Google app for iOS and Apple Shortcuts. Unlike the Android version of Circle to Search, the shortcut has some limitations on iOS, and depends on Google Lens.

Google Lens design manager Minsang Choi announced the arrival of a new shortcut on the Google app for iOS via a post on X (formerly Twitter). Named “Search your screenshot”, it will let you perform a custom action called “Search image with Lens” through the Shortcuts app. When activated, the shortcut takes a screenshot and uses Google Lens to view the contents of the image.

To use Shortcuts on iPhone, you need to make sure your phone is running iOS 13 or later and download the latest version of google app For iOS. Shortcuts can be accessed directly by tapping Link shared by Choi On an iPhone. Alternatively, you can choose to set the shortcut manually by selecting take screenshot And after this Search image with lens,

While Android users can simply grab the navigation bar to access the Circle to Search feature, iPhone owners can speed up the process of launching shortcuts by mapping them to the action button on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. In the meantime, navigate simple use , touch , tap back The Settings app will allow you to launch shortcuts using the double tap or triple tap gesture on most modern iPhone models.

Although Google’s new shortcut is quite simple to launch once set up, it is limited in terms of functionality compared to the Circle to Search feature on Android smartphones. While the shortcut will send your screenshot to Google Lens for visual lookup, you can’t draw a circle or highlight a portion of the screen to look up. However, it is a convenient way to quickly look up something on your iPhone with a few taps.

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