Samsung’s much-touted Circle to Search function, which became part of the substantial batch of AI-related things it presented for the Galaxy S24 householdrapidly ended up not to be in any method unique to the Korean business. The day after the S24 statement, Google delicately revealed the very same function for its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro
Google’s Circle to Search was then stated to begin presenting on January 31, and certainly it has. According to numerous reports on Redditit’s now readily available on both the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. This isn’t coming through a firmware upgrade, by the method, it appears to be a server-side switch so it simply ‘amazingly’ appears.
If you have among Google’s newest smart devices, keep in mind that you will not get any indicator that Circle to Search is live. Simply attempt to utilize it and it ought to work – that is, presuming that this isn’t among Google’s hallmark staged rollouts.
Circle to Search works anywhere on your phone. To trigger it you require to long press the navigation bar and after that you can simply begin circling around and highlighting products on-screen. It’s much quicker and much easier to utilize than Google Lens was – however it utilizes the very same backend as Lens, which supports multimodal search inquiries so you can utilize both text and images.