How To Reverse Image Search On Android Iphone And Pc

Reverse Image Search on Android

There are multiple ways to reverse search images on Android, and the easiest means to do so are using Google Lens and Circle to Search. Here’s how you can do it:

Using Google Lens

Google Lens is built into the camera apps of almost all Android phones. If you don’t find it in the camera UI, you will see it in Google Photos, if it’s your go-to app for viewing images. A few built-in gallery apps like OnePlus’ Photos app also have a Google Lens icon. Here’s how to use it:
If you didn’t find Google Lens in the camera app or Google Photos, you can install it as a standalone app from the Google Play Store for free.

Circle to Search allows you to search anything on your Android phone by highlighting it on the screen. It was first introduced on Samsung phones, then on Google Pixels, but it’s slowly expanding to all Android phones running Android 9 and above. Here’s how to use Circle to Search.

Reverse Image Search on iPhone

Like Android, there are a couple of ways to reverse search an image on iOS, one of them involves the Google app, and the other way is to do it via Google Chrome. There’s another way to reverse image search that’s coming soon, and it’s called Visual Intelligence. It’s essentially Google Lens but with Apple’s sprinkling its UI on top. Apple introduced it during the iPhone 16 series launch.

Using Google App

Unlike Android, Google Lens isn’t available as a standalone app on iOS, but the feature can be accessed using the Google app.

Using Google Photos App

Google Photos also has Google Lens built-in and is pretty effortless to use. Here’s how to use it:

Using Google Chrome

Chrome is another Google app that comes with Google Lens built-in. Here’s how to use it:

Reverse Image Search on PC

While there’s no Google Lens app available for Windows or Mac, you can reverse image search directly using Google Search. Here are all the ways you can do it.

Uploading an Image to Google

You can reverse search by uploading an image to Google. Here’s how to do it.

Reverse Search with Image URL

Don’t have the image, but the image URL instead? You can search via URL as well:

Reverse Image Search with AI

AI has emerged as an alternative to search engines. AI assistants/chatbots can also be used to reverse search images, and they’re surprisingly good at doing so. Here’s how you can reverse image search using two of the most popular AI assistants in the world right now – Google Gemini and ChatGPT.

Using Google Gemini

Google Gemini is pretty good at reverse image search, and it sometimes returns surprisingly good results. Here’s how to use it.

Using ChatGPT

ChatGPT has gotten much better since its release and is easily one of the best tools you can use to reverse image search. You can use ChatGPT itself or one of its custom GPTs – Reverse Image Search GPT to get the job done. And those are the ways you can use to reverse image search from Android, iOS, and PC. Do you know other clever ways to reverse search images on the web? Let us know in the comments.