Google is announcing several AI updates to its Google Photos app, including iOS support for image editing chat-based, more accurate face edits, and new AI tools. This means the “Help me edit” feature, which lets you describe how you want Google’s AI to change your photos, will be available to iPhone usersafter it rolls out to Pixel and other Android devices.
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“Starting with the iOS launch in the US, you can simply describe the edits you want using voice or text and watch Google Photos bring your vision to life,” Google said in a blog post. This update also brings Google Photos’ redesigned editing interface to iPhone, making it easy to tweak images with simple gestures and one-tap suggestions.
The new personalized editing capabilities should make changing your or your friends' faces — like removing glasses, opening closed eyes, or inserting a smile — more precise.
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Google's Nano Banana AI model is also being integrated into Google Photos, giving users more options for transforming images into new styles, such as paintings, mosaics, and illustrations.
Other updates include a new “Ask” button for Android and iOS users, which launches a chatbot-like interface for editing images and answering questions about their content. There are also ready-made AI templates for Android users that allow you to instantly edit photos using popular prompts, such as “put me in a high-fashion photoshoot.”
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Finally, the “Ask Photos” tool that makes it easier to find specific images in the gallery is also expanding to more than 100 new regions and 17 new languages.
