The Google Lens app today is aimed at analyzing live images in real time, but a new gallery view makes it easier to filter screenshots and other images that are already on the camera roll.
Lens on Android, which was last redesigned in September, has long had a left shutter button to launch your device’s Files app. A recent beta update introduced a gallery view that shows a full-screen grid of thumbnails.
The top of the screen shows your eight most recent screenshots with a “Show all” button in the corner. Touching an image will have Google Lens automatically process it. The rest of this page is dedicated to “All images”. This is a much more streamlined way of doing things than manually browsing your files and folders for images for analysis.
That said, this experience is very similar to that of Google Photos. It is useful for users who have the Lens icon on their home screen and only use visual search through this “application”.
Lens is updated through the Google app and this gallery is currently in the beta channel (version 12.8 and later).
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Dylan Roussel contributed to this article
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