Google has begun to implement a new shortcut for iPhone 15 Pro smartphones with which you can activate Google Lens by pressing the action button to search for anything displayed on the screen, in a adaptation of Google’s ‘Surround to Search’ function on Android smartphones.
With the launch of the ‘smartphones’ Pixel 8 y 8 Pro Besides Samsung Galaxy S24 including new search capabilities powered by generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Google launched a feature it refers to as ‘Circle to Search’. This feature allows users to consult information, compare results or even buy products, just by surround a specific element on the screen.
Thus, although Google’s ‘Rodea para Search’ is not available on iOS devices, the technology company has launched a new shortcut for iPhone 15 Pro smartphones with which, when pressing the action button Of the device will activate Google Lens and will allow users to make a search on anything that appears on the screen.
Currently, iPhone devices have access to Google Lens through the Google app and Google Photos. Now, with this new shortcut you will be able to carry out Search faster and easier with just the touch of a button.
This has been confirmed by 9to5Google, which has had access to this new shortcut and has pointed out that, when activating this function with the action button, the device will carry out a screenshot that will be scanned by Google Lens and will allow perform different searches on what is shown on the screen.
To use the shortcut, users must have the Google application for iOS. Likewise, they must download Google Lens shortcut and implement it for use with the action button via the menu iOS settings.
Likewise, according to the aforementioned medium, this shortcut can also be configured through the Back Tap Accessibility feature,so it would allow use the same shortcut on other iPhone devices that do not have the action button of the iPhone 15 Pro.
The new Google Lens shortcut for iPhone has also been shared by the Google Lens design manager Minsang Choi through a post on X (former Twitter). However, this post has recently been deleted.