Chrome in your iPhone can search utilizing photos and phrases on the similar time

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 may already use Google Lens to seek for an image in your iPhone or one taken from the digital camera, however now you may add phrases together with it to slender your search in a single go.

As an example, you may add an image of a t-shirt design you want into Lens and sort the identify of a shade that you simply favor into search, and it’ll attempt to discover the shirt you need. This replace comes as Apple launched its personal Visible Intelligence search, which solely works on iPhone 16 and 16 Professional.

The brand new iOS Chrome additionally permits you to save photographs and recordsdata (reminiscent of PDFs) from the online on to Google Images 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 favor to make use of Google Drive.

Moreover, iOS Chrome is getting Shopping Insights, which might 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 need to sync your looking historical past with Google and activate “Make searches & browsing better,” 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 change to the Google Maps app. In keeping with Google, extra options shall be added to iOS Chrome within the coming months.