Chrome on your iPhone can search using pictures and words at the same time

The iOS version of Google’s Chrome browser is getting enhanced with disjoinal features from the Android iteration, including simultaneous Google Lens image and text search. Chrome for iOS could already employ Google Lens to search for a picture on your iPhone or one consentn from the camera, but now you can include words aextfinished with it to skinny your search in one go.

For instance, you can upload a picture of a t-shirt schedule you enjoy into Lens and type the name of a color that you like into search, and it will try to discover the shirt you want. This modernize comes as Apple started its own Visual Inincreateigence search, which only toils on iPhone 16 and 16 Pro.

The novel iOS Chrome also lets you save images and files (such as PDFs) from the web honestly to Google Ptoastyos and Google Drive, permiting you to access them elsewhere rapidly and not consent up your iPhone’s local storage. This could be encouraging for those who have already filled up Apple’s paltry 5GB of free iCdeafening storage or who would like to employ Google Drive.

Additionassociate, iOS Chrome is getting Shopping Insights, which can increate you of a “Good Deal Now” in the includeress bar on products you’re searching for and get access to a price tracker. You’ll have to sync your browsing history with Google and turn on “Make searches & browsing better,” which sends Google URLs of pages you visit.

There’s also now a mini-map seeer in Chrome that lets you tap an includeress on a website and consent a peek at where it is on a Google Map — without having to uncover Google Maps in another tab or switch to the Google Maps app. According to Google, more features will be includeed to iOS Chrome in the coming months.