Google Photos is bringing its instant update-based editing feature to India, Australia and Japan

Google is bringing AI photo editing to more users around the world, making it easy to fix your photos with simple text commands instead of complex editing tools.

The company announced Tuesday that it is expanding natural language editing in Google Photos to additional countries, including Australia, India and Japan. The feature, which Google first rolled out to Pixel 10 users in the US last August, lets users outline the changes they want to make to their photos instead of manually adjusting sliders or learning complex editing software.

Users in these newly supported countries will now see a “Help me edit” box when they tap the edit option on a photo. From there, they can either choose from suggested messages or type their own requests in plain language. For example, you could ask the app to “remove the motorcycle in the background”, “reduce background blur”, or use a more general command like “restore this old photo”.

AI can also handle surprisingly specific requests. You can ask it to edit a friend’s pose, remove their glasses, or even have them open their eyes in a photo where they blinked. The feature uses Google’s Nano Banana image model to transform photos and all the editing is done directly within the app without requiring an internet connection for the actual editing.

The feature will work on any Android device with at least 4GB of RAM running Android 8.0 or higher, which means it’s not limited to Google’s Pixel phones. Along with this geographic expansion, Google is also adding language support beyond English, including Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali and Gujarati, making the tool accessible to millions more users in their native languages.

Google also provides C2PA Content Credentials support in Google Photos for these countries. This metadata will indicate when an image was created or edited using AI. As AI-generated and edited images become more common, social media platforms are grappling with how to flag AI content, and credentials like C2PA help users understand what they’re seeing.

The extension is the latest in Google’s aggressive push to integrate artificial intelligence into Google Photos. Last November, the company expanded its AI search capabilities to more than 100 countries with support for more than 17 languages. It also introduced AI templates that can transform photos into different artistic styles. Just last week, Google launched a “Meme me” feature that allows users to combine reference templates with their own images to create memes.