Android's Circle to Search functionality -- which uses Gemini AI to let you search for specific parts of images or videos online -- is getting more powerful.

Circle to Search rearranges Android's system-wide gestures, replacing Google Assistant's voice prompt as the long-press home button shortcut, while adding a new long-press shortcut for devices ...

How it works Circle to Search, which lets you draw a circle on your screen to search for something, debuted on the Google Pixel 8 series last year and expanded to other Android devices shortly after.

The limitation? On Android, you can use the circle-to-search feature across your entire phone, but on iPhones, this feature is limited to the Chrome and Google apps.

Google built Assistant, Gemini, Lens, and Circle to Search as overlapping accessories to Search, making the service significantly more intuitive and accessible on the best Android devices.

With the launch of its Android 15 update, Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing Phone (2a) can now use Google's Circle to Search feature.

Google has quietly added a useful new feature to its Circle to Search tool on Android devices. Users can now view their past song searches directly within the feature itself, a function that wasn ...