Google Photos adds new AI features for editing, expands AI search to more than 100 countries

Google Photos has launched a number of new AI-powered features, including a way to edit objects and people in images, a new ask button for AI answers about photos or editing requests, AI templates for creating new photos, and expanding natural language search.

The company first introduced update-based processing for Pixel 10 series phones in August. Now, iOS users in the US can describe their edits using voice or text to modify images, Google announced on Tuesday. The company is also bringing its redesigned photo editor with easy editing options to iOS.

The upgrade includes a new personalized edits feature that recognizes people from Google Photos’ face groups. Users can find the “Help me edit” option and type in several instructions that apply to the people in the photo. For example, “Remove Riley’s sunglasses, open my eyes, make Engel smile and open her eyes” to get changes related to each person, as the image below shows.

The company is adding its popular AI image model, Nano Banana, to Google Photos to allow users to edit their photos to recreate images in new styles, such as a Renaissance portrait or an animated film.

Google is also adding AI templates to let users easily convert a photo into a specific format. With Nano Banana, formats like turning images into retro portraits or action figures became popular. The company said this feature will roll out next week on Android under the Build tab in the US and India, where Nano Banana is used the most.

Google Photos is also getting a slight design change with a new Ask button that will act as a starting point for different AI requests. Users can request information about the photo, discover relevant moments and edit it using prompts. The company will also display some suggestion chips to indicate what users can do with this feature, which is available to US users on iOS and Android.

Last year, Google introduced an AI-powered search feature to the Photos app with an initial launch in the United States. Today, the company expands 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 ​​like Arabic, Bengali, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.