Google Lens now available for iPhones

You can use Google Lens to store phone numbers and addresses from business cards, save event dates from flyers and posters in your calendar or display information on books, buildings, works of art, plants or animals. — dpa

Good news for Apple users: iPhone and iPad owners can now also use Google's popular Lens tool to find out information on something by analysing an image of it.

Google Lens, already available for Android devices, can now also be used on iOS devices. Within Google's Photos app, it analyses a selected image and performs certain actions.

You can use Google Lens to store phone numbers and addresses from business cards, save event dates from flyers and posters in your calendar or display information on books, buildings, works of art, plants or animals.

Google Lens runs on iOS and Android devices with Google Photos 3.15 or higher. However, according to Google, the app can currently only be used if the device language is set to English. — dpa