However, Lens is really more about helping you perform tasks, like instant translation, identifying things, or finding a product to buy, than it is about finding a source image.īing Visual Search as viewed in Safari on iOS Lens has its own mobile app (Opens in a new window), but is also part of the Google app, and the apps for Google Photos and Google Assistant. Google Lens also offers a reverse image search option. You'll see options to narrow your query, such as finding animated GIFs, clip-art equivalents, or looking by the color scheme used in the original image. With either method, reverse image search results then appear you may have to click a More sizes option up top to see only the images. Then copy the URL, go back to, and paste in the URL. If for some reason this doesn't work, you can also select Open Image in New Tab. Note: This will NOT work in the Google app or other browsers (not even in Safari). When you see the image in your browser that you want to search, hold your finger on it until a pop-up menu appears pick Search Google for This Image at the bottom.
On mobile devices you also get a map where you can see where photos are taken. Google tries to identify where a photo is taken. On other accounts you can only remove wrong results (select > 3-dots > remove results On some accounts you can also edit (add or correct) the people tags. For example when a group is called "John" a search with "John" will also find all photos in an album called John's birthday. It is recommended to use a unique name, to avoid false hits when searching. Google tries to identify and group similar faces. Wrong results can be removed in People and Things but (?) not in Places.
Note that, when you search with the words used to describe People Things or Places, you probably get different results.