New ways to access About this image

Jul 31, 2024

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Nidhi Hebbar

Senior Product Manager

At 1 constituent aliases another, you’ve astir apt recovered yourself scrolling online, aliases getting a matter from a friend, and seeing an image you didn’t recognize. For times for illustration this, our “About this image” tool tin thief — and now, you tin usage it successful much places.

Use About this image pinch Circle to Search aliases Google Lens

“About this image” is rolling retired to Circle to Search and Google Lens, giving you much ways to quickly get discourse connected images that you spot wherever you travel crossed them. Let’s locomotion done really to usage it.

Say your friend texts you an image of a unreality that eerily resembles a UFO, and you want to fig retired what’s going on. If you’re connected an Android instrumentality pinch Circle to Search enabled, simply:

• Long property nan location fastener aliases navigation barroom to activate Circle to Search
• Circle aliases pat connected nan image connected your telephone screen.
• Google Search results will popular up. Swipe up to spot much results, and pat nan “About this image” tab.
• Find accusation astir nan image truthful you tin spot much context.

If you want to usage Google Lens, you tin get to “About this image” successful a fewer elemental steps:

• Screenshot aliases download nan image your friend texted you (or you saw connected societal media).
• Open nan Google app and pat nan Lens icon successful nan hunt bar.
• Select nan image from your gallery. Swipe up to spot much results, and pat nan “About this image” tab.
• Find adjuvant specifications and discourse astir nan image to thief you fig retired what’s going on.

If you utilized “About this image” connected this picture, you’d easy find sources that would fto you cognize that this is conscionable a very cool type of unreality formation, and not a UFO.

Using “About this image” will thief you get much accusation about:

• How different sites usage and picture nan image: You tin spot really an image is utilized connected different pages and what different sources, for illustration news and fact-checking sites, person to opportunity astir it. This accusation tin beryllium adjuvant to measure nan claims being made astir an image, and to spot grounds and perspectives from different sources.
• An image’s metadata: Metadata is information that gives you much accusation astir an image (such arsenic nan creator of nan image and immoderate accusation astir really that image whitethorn beryllium created). It’s important to retrieve that metadata tin beryllium added aliases removed by nan personification who posts an image. When available, you’ll beryllium capable to spot metadata that image creators and publishers person added to an image, including fields that whitethorn bespeak that it’s been generated aliases enhanced by AI.
• Digital watermark: About this image tin place if nan image was generated utilizing AI, provided it contains Google DeepMind's SynthID watermark embedded wrong its pixels.