It's quite magical and really outshines Apple's new Translate app. If Lens detects a foreign language it will translate to English and overlay the translated text over the foreign text. ![]() If a product or brand name is recognized, Lens will offer useful information and provide links to the relevant item or company. ![]() Touching it will give the option to copy the text or perform a search. Google's advanced artificial intelligence will offer various forms of help, depending on what is visible. With Google Lens on the Home Screen, a tap of the Lens button opens the camera and begins to analyze what is visible. To see the Lens button, the user must choose the larger version of the Widget. ![]() Then the Widget can be installed from the Widget library. To get the Google Widget, the Google app must be installed and opened once. Making three different forms of Google Search easily accessible from the Home Screen is convenient, but placing Google Lens within the Widget might be enough to earn it a place on every iPhone. Incognito search is similar, but search history is not saved. Tapping the text box opens Google Search full screen and the keyboard appears, ready to accept keywords. After a brief pause to check that speech has stopped, the search is performed and results appear in a full screen list. Tapping Voice Search allows a search to begin simply by speaking one or more words. The most impressive and complex of these is Google Lens. Showing a text box and three buttons, makes it a shortcut to launching Google Search, Lens, Voice Search and Incognito Search. In contrast, the larger widget takes up an entire row of space, but it is worth it. The smaller version behaves exactly like the app icon and adds no value. There are two sizes available although the larger size Widget is the best to add. ![]() Google just added an iOS 14 Home Screen Widget to its Google iOS app. Related: How Google Lens Can Help Students Learn Math From Home
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