Android’s native Photo Picker will soon let you search through your Google Photos library. Although announced last year for a 2024 release, the search feature is finally being tested, hinting at an ...

Google introduced a system photo picker in Android a while back, allowing for better privacy of the photos, videos, and files on your device. Now, Google is pushing for more Android apps to use the ...

Google is testing several new features on the Android 16 Canary build’s new photo picker tool. It allows users to pick multiple photos at once using simple tap and drag. The pinch-to-zoom-in and ...

With the release of Android 13, Google debuted a new image picker for Android that’s also available on older versions of the operating system. With a recent update, Google Voice is adding support for ...

Android 13 added a new photo picker experience that lets you privately select photos or videos to share with an app. Since launch, Android’s photo picker was limited to selecting photos or videos ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. A few years ago, Android introduced a built-in photo picker that lets you choose specifically which of your images a given app ...

When you’re choosing a photo to upload to social media or edit using an image editing software, you’re usually tied to the pictures that are on your phone. However, the Android photo picker is about ...