Google’s Circle to Search Is Now on the iPhone. Well, Kinda
[ad_1] Google continued its march into AI earlier this year, releasing Circle to Search for the Pixel 8 and Galaxy S24 series. Circle to Search works exactly how you think — using your finger, you can circle, highlight or tap pretty much anything on your Android display and then search for it on Google. You can highlight a purse someone is holding in a photo on Instagram, for example, and find out the brand of the purse and where you can buy it, all in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately for iPhone users, the feature is exclusive to Android — but there is a workaround. There’s a way to bring a feature similar to Circle to Search to iOS, but it’s not how you think. As long as you have the Google app, you can create an iOS shortcut that takes a screenshot of your display and then triggers the app to use Google Lens’ visual search feature to search for whatever is in the screenshot, similar to how Circle to Search works. It’s obviously …