Google rolls out Ask Photos AI feature on Google Photos

Google Photos is improving its search, allowing you to use more descriptive inquiries in normal language. You can arrange the results by date or relevance to help you find the exact image you're looking for faster. This experience is presently available in English to all Android and iOS users, and it will be expanded to additional languages "in the coming weeks".

US users on the waitlist can now obtain early access to Ask Photos via Google Labs. This enhances search using the power of Gemini AI. Ask Photos understands the context of your photo collection, including the most important people in your life, as well as your interests and favorite cuisines. As a result, it can extract essential details to assist you in locating specific memories and learning more about your life.

Because Ask Photos is essentially a chatbot in Google Photos, it is conversational, so if it does not find what you are looking for on the first try, you can provide further hints or details. You may even ask it to assist you summarise the highlights of a trip and recommend the best images from a certain occasion. All of this works because to the magic of Gemini models.

Google claims that humans may evaluate your Ask Photos requests to enhance the service, but only after you have been away from your Google Account to preserve your privacy. Humans do not check the answers Ask Photos provides, save in rare circumstances where you provide comments or to resolve abuse or injury.