Samsung’s much-touted Circle to Search characteristic, which was a part of the large batch of AI-related stuff it launched for the Galaxy S24 household, rapidly turned out to not be in any method unique to the Korean firm. The day after the S24 announcement, Google casually unveiled the identical characteristic for its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional.
Google’s Circle to Search was then mentioned to start out rolling out on January 31, and certainly it has. Based on a number of studies on Reddit, it is now obtainable on each the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional. This is not coming by means of a firmware replace, by the way in which, it appears to be a server-side swap so it simply ‘magically’ seems.
You probably have one in all Google’s newest smartphones, notice that you simply will not get any indication that Circle to Search is stay. Simply attempt to use it and it ought to work – that’s, assuming that this is not one in all Google’s trademark staged rollouts.
Circle to Search works anyplace in your cellphone. To activate it it’s good to lengthy press the navigation bar after which you’ll be able to simply begin circling and highlighting gadgets on-screen. It is a lot faster and simpler to make use of than Google Lens was – nevertheless it makes use of the identical backend as Lens, which helps multimodal search queries so you should utilize each textual content and pictures.
