The iOS model of Google’s Chrome browser is getting upgraded with a number of options from the Android iteration, together with simultaneous Google Lens picture and textual content search. Chrome for iOS might already use Google Lens to seek for an image in your iPhone or one taken from the digicam, however now you possibly can add phrases together with it to slim your search in a single go.
For occasion, you possibly can add an image of a t-shirt design you want into Lens and kind the title of a colour that you just choose into search, and it’ll attempt to discover the shirt you need. This replace comes as Apple launched its personal Visual Intelligence search, which solely works on iPhone 16 and 16 Pro.
The new iOS Chrome additionally helps you to save photos and recordsdata (resembling PDFs) from the online on to Google Photos and Google Drive, permitting you to entry them elsewhere rapidly and never take up your iPhone’s native storage. This could possibly be useful for individuals who have already stuffed up Apple’s paltry 5GB of free iCloud storage or who would like to make use of Google Drive.
Additionally, iOS Chrome is getting Shopping Insights, which may notify you of a “Good Deal Now” within the handle bar on merchandise you’re looking for and get entry to a worth tracker. You’ll must sync your looking historical past with Google and activate “Make searches & looking higher,” which sends Google URLs of pages you go to.
There’s additionally now a mini-map viewer in Chrome that allows you to faucet an handle on an internet site and take a peek at the place it’s on a Google Map — with out having to open Google Maps in one other tab or swap to the Google Maps app. According to Google, extra options shall be added to iOS Chrome within the coming months.
