Samsung’s much-touted Circle to Search function, which was a part of the large batch of AI-related stuff it launched for the Galaxy S24 household, shortly turned out to not be in any means unique to the Korean firm. The day after the S24 announcement, Google casually unveiled the identical function for its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional.
Google’s Circle to Search was then stated to begin rolling out on January 31, and certainly it has. In response to 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 change so it simply ‘magically’ seems.
When you have certainly one of Google’s newest smartphones, observe that you just 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 certainly one of Google’s trademark staged rollouts.
Circle to Search works anyplace in your cellphone. To activate it it is advisable lengthy press the navigation bar after which you may simply begin circling and highlighting gadgets on-screen. It is a lot faster and simpler to make use of than Google Lens was – however it makes use of the identical backend as Lens, which helps multimodal search queries so you should utilize each textual content and pictures.