Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR Google Lens is trying out an interface with Android’s new embedded photo picker.
The new picker should make it easier to find your photos, while enhancing privacy.
Lens is also experimenting with jumping right to your gallery on startup.
Out of all the different file types we might work with on our phones, images have got to be the most popular. If we’re not capturing photos with our camera, or generating pics with Nano Banana, we’re sharing pictures like those with other people. That’s exactly why it’s so important for Android to have a good interface for selecting images — and right now, we’re taking a peek at an update that’s in the works for how Google Lens does just that.
Google is in the middle of a bit of a push right now to encourage developers to try out its new embedded photo picker. Beyond just looking nice, it also makes it easier to find your pics with search tools, and helps with privacy and security by simplifying how apps get access to your photos.
Like any good developer, Google eats its own dogfood, and in version 17.3.59.sa.arm64 beta of the Google Android app, we’ve uncovered work towards updating Google Lens with the embedded photo picker.
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Like many of the in-development changes we spot Google preparing, this one isn’t live in Lens just yet, but we’ve been able to get the app to give us an early look at how this will work in action:
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