Wow! Do you feel like you’ve been here before? Google is preparing to launch a new universal search system for Android devices called Circle to Search. This feature allows you to search anything on your Android phone screen without switching apps. With a simple gesture, you can select images, text, or videos by circling, highlighting, scribbling, or tapping and find the information you need right where you are.
To activate the new visual search system, press and hold your finger to the bottom-center area of your screen. This will allow you to pinpoint what exact part of the screen you want to learn more about. It’s an interesting new way to bring the typically buried brilliance of Google Lens on Android into the forefront and make it a more prominent, native-feeling, and easily accessible part of the Android experience.
Circle to Search is reminiscent of a feature Google launched nearly a decade ago called Google Now on Tap. It worked in an almost identical way, with on-demand screen searching kicked off by a finger press in the same area and then the ability to pinpoint what precise part of the screen you wanted your search to revolve around.
Circle to Search will be limited in its availability for the foreseeable future, with the feature launching only on the Pixel 8 and Galaxy S24 phones and not even showing up there until sometime later this month. However, you can accomplish the same exact thing Circle to Search promises on virtually any Android phone — no matter how old it is or who made it.
For more advanced Android knowledge, check out the free Android Shortcut Supercourse to learn tons of time-saving tricks for your phone.
Source: www.computerworld.com
2024-01-28 04:41:02