Google has been engaged on making Lens app extra centered on photos you’ve already taken. The firm pushed out a UI redesign that minimized Lens’s dwell viewfinder final 12 months, dedicating the remaining display actual property to screenshots and different photos in your gallery. Google’s now tweaking Lens to make looking your cellphone for photos even simpler.
The replace provides a chevron icon subsequent to the Screenshots choice on the Google Lens residence display, turning it right into a dropdown menu (per 9to5Google). This small tweak offers you quick access to photographs inside any folder in your cellphone. Just faucet on Screenshots, choose the specified folder, and it’ll robotically open up as a fullscreen grid.
Left: Old. Middle & Right: New.
Before, you had simply the Screenshots and Images tabs by default. Though you may in all probability discover the images you wished, the view was just a little convoluted. And if the picture in query was fairly outdated, properly, don’t even hassle looking for it by Lens. The various was to launch Google Photos, flick thru your albums, and activate the app’s built-in Lens integration.
The report additionally notes that Google has adjusted previews on the Screenshots grid to tackle an oblong side ratio that’s extra consultant of your cellphone’s show. Other picture previews stay unchanged, retaining their sq. look.
Lens is a kind of Google apps always getting up to date to carry extra options to customers. Last month, we noticed Google tighten the app’s already glorious integration with Translate. The replace introduced the power to carry out on the spot translations, captured picture translations, and imported photograph translations to the iOS app, with Android to observe. The firm even added the choice to pick out translated textual content and carry out actions like copying, looking, and sending to Translate’s homepage.
The new UI tweak is already rolling out extensively to Lens for Android. You can test it out by merely launching the app and navigating to the chevron icon subsequent to screenshots.
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