Samsung’s much-touted Circle to Seek characteristic, which used to be a part of the large batch of AI-related stuff it presented for the Galaxy S24 circle of relatives, temporarily became out to not be whatsoever unique to the Korean corporate. The day after the S24 announcement, Google casually unveiled the similar characteristic for its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional.
Google’s Circle to Seek used to be then mentioned to begin rolling out on January 31, and certainly it has. In line with more than one reviews on Reddit, it is now to be had on each the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional. This is not coming thru a firmware replace, by means of the best way, it sort of feels to be a server-side transfer so it simply ‘magically’ seems.
You probably have one among Google’s newest smartphones, observe that you will not get any indication that Circle to Seek is reside. Simply attempt to use it and it will have to paintings – this is, assuming that this is not one among Google’s trademark staged rollouts.
Circle to Seek works any place to your telephone. To turn on it you wish to have to lengthy press the navigation bar after which you’ll simply get started circling and highlighting pieces on-screen. It is a lot sooner and more uncomplicated to make use of than Google Lens used to be – nevertheless it makes use of the similar backend as Lens, which helps multimodal seek queries so you’ll use each textual content and photographs.
