GOOGLE has begun rolling out a new AI-powered feature to its Photos app that lets users search for images with just their voice.
Users can ask their device: ‘Where did I go camping last year?’ And Google’s AI will scan their photo library and pluck out the right snaps.
The Ask Photos feature, which has been made available to both Android and iPhone owners through Google Photos, is the exact same as a top iOS 18 tool touted by Apple.
Apple is just days away from unveiling iOS 18, which will come jam-packed with the company’s new AI features.
So it appears Apple has been pipped to the post with its grand reveal.
The feature uses Google’s Gemini AI to understand natural language search, which allows users to ask their questions conversationally – and not in a stiff, scripted way for a voice assistant to understand.
The AI can then look through an entire photo …