Google Photos adds new AI features for editing, expands AI-powered search to over 100 countries

Google Photos has rolled out a series of new AI-powered features, including a way to edit objects and people in photos, a new “Ask” button to get AI-powered answers about the photo or editing requests, AI templates for creating new photos, and expanding natural language search.

The company first introduced Instant Editing for the Pixel 10 series phones in August. iOS users in the US can now describe their edits using voice or text to edit photos, Google announced on Tuesday. The company also brings it Redesigned photo editor With easy editing options for iOS.

The upgrade includes a new custom adjustments feature that recognizes people from face sets in Google Photos. Users can find the “Help me edit” option and write various instructions that apply to the people within the photo. For example, “Remove Riley’s sunglasses, open my eyes, make Angel smile, open her eyes” to get edits for each person, as the image below shows.

The company is adding the popular AI photo model Nano Banana to Google Photos to allow users to edit their photos to recreate images in new styles like a Renaissance portrait or cartoon strip.

Google is also adding AI templates to allow users to easily convert a single image to a specific format. With Nano Banana, formats such as Convert photos into old photos or anthropomorphic characters became popular. The company said that this feature will be rolled out next week on Android under the “Create” tab in the United States and India, where Nano bananas are used the most.

Google Photos is also getting a slight design change with a new “Ask” button that will serve as a starting point for various AI requests. Users can request information about the photo, discover relevant moments, and edit them using prompts. The company will also show some suggestion slides to indicate what users can do with the feature, which is rolling out to users in the US on iOS and Android.

Last year, Google introduced an AI-powered search feature to its Photos app with its initial launch in the US. Today, the company expands its search to more than 100 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and South Africa. It will support more than 17 new languages ​​such as Arabic, Bengali, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.