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How to Reverse Image Search on Android

• Mahesh Makvana

  @maheshhari

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  • How to Reverse Image Search on Android
  • How to Reverse Image Search a Saved Image
  • How to Reverse Search for an Image in Google Chrome
  • How to Reverse Search for an Image in Mozilla Firefox

With reverse image search on Android, you can pick a photo from your phone and find more information or similar images on the internet. Well show you how to perform this search with the Google app.

Well cover how to do this on your phone and in the Chrome and Firefox web browsers. In all three methods below, youll need the free Google app installed on your phone.

How to Reverse Image Search a Saved Image

If you have an image saved on your phone that youve either downloaded or captured with your camera, you canfind more informationon it or similar images using the free Google app.

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Launch the Google app on your phone. In the app, right next to the Search field, tap the Google Lens option (a camera icon).

On the Google Lens screen, at the bottom, tap the media icon.

If youd like to capture a photo and then perform a reverse search for it, point your phones camera to your object.

If Google is accessing your phones gallery for the first time, you will see a prompt on your screen. Tap Give Access in this prompt to continue.

In your phones prompt, tap Allow.

You will see all your gallery photos. Here, tap the photo for which youd like to perform a reverse image search.

When your photo opens in a full-screen view, use the handlers around the photo to select the specific area in your photo that you want to find on the internet.

A white section will appear at the bottom of the Google app. Drag this section upwards to reveal it.

And youll now see similar photos and more information about your image.

And thats how you find out the details for an image saved on your Android phone.

How to Reverse Search for an Image in Google Chrome

You can reverse search for the images that you find on websites in the Chrome mobile app on your phone.

To do this, first, open the site where your image is located.

Tap and hold the image, then from the menu that opens, select Search with Google Lens.

A Google Lens screen will appear displaying more information about your image.

How to Reverse Search for an Image in Mozilla Firefox

To perform a reverse search for an image on a website in the Firefox mobile app, first, open the site where the image is available.

Tap and hold on image, and from the menu that opens, select Share Image.

From the Share menu, choose Search Image (the Google icon).

Youll reach a Google Lens page that displays more information about your selected image.

Thats all there is to performing a reverse image search on Android phones. We hope it helps you out.

You can perform a reverse image search on a desktop computer, too.

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