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 might already use Google Lens to seek for an image in your iPhone or one taken from the digicam, however now you’ll be able to add phrases together with it to slender your search in a single go.
As an example, you’ll be able to add an image of a t-shirt design you want into Lens and sort the identify of a colour that you just 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 enables you to save photographs and recordsdata (corresponding to PDFs) from the net on to Google Images and Google Drive, permitting you to entry them elsewhere shortly and never take up your iPhone’s native storage. This may very well be useful for many who have already crammed up Apple’s paltry 5GB of free iCloud storage or who would favor to make use of Google Drive.
Moreover, iOS Chrome is getting Buying Insights, which might notify you of a “Good Deal Now” within the deal with bar on merchandise you’re looking for and get entry to a value tracker. You’ll should sync your searching historical past with Google and activate “Make searches & searching higher,” 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 deal with 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 response to Google, extra options can be added to iOS Chrome within the coming months.