Google photos search by image android from gallery

• You can reverse image search on your Android device with Google Chrome.
• You can also reverse image search on a web page by tapping and holding the image and then choosing to search with Google Lens.
• If the image is stored on your phone, you can tap on the Google Lens icon in Chrome's search bar.

If you need to see where else a photo has been published online — to check on a copyright or publishing question, see where else it has been used, or try to trace its origins — then a reverse image search can be quite helpful.

You may already know how to do it on a computer, but it turns out that it's easy to do on your Android phone as well.

Here's how to do it.

How to reverse image search on Android

There are a couple of ways to do an image search using your Android device. But before you proceed, make sure you've updated Google Chrome to the latest version.

Using an image from image search results

The ability to do a reverse image search is built into Google Chrome, which makes it very easy to perform after an image search.

1. Open the Google Chrome app.

2. Go to http://images.google.com.

3. Perform a search to find the image you want.

4. Tap on the image.

5. Tap the Google Lens icon on the top right and Google will do a reverse image search. 

6. The results of the reverse image search will appear below the original image in a pop-up. Swipe up on the pop-up to see the full results.

Using an image from a website

You can also do a reverse image search directly from a website, which is very convenient.

1. Open the Google Chrome app.

2. Navigate to the web page with the image you want to search with.

3. Tap and hold the image until a pop-up menu appears.

4. Tap Search Google for this image.

5. After a moment, you'll see the search results for this image below the image you searched with. Swipe up in the area with the results to see them fully.

Using an image from your device

If the image you want to search with is already stored on your phone, rather than located on a web page, you can also use it for a reverse image search.

1. Open the Google Chrome app.

2. In the search bar, tap the Google Lens icon on the right. You might need to give Chrome access to your gallery and camera.

3. If the image is physical, tap Search with your camera in the top section and take a photo of it. Otherwise, scroll through your gallery and tap on the image you want to search with.

4. After a moment, you'll see the search results for this image below the image you searched with. Swipe up on the area with the results to see them fully.

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Dave Johnson is a technology journalist who writes about consumer tech and how the industry is transforming the speculative world of science fiction into modern-day real life. Dave grew up in New Jersey before entering the Air Force to operate satellites, teach space operations, and do space launch planning. He then spent eight years as a content lead on the Windows team at Microsoft. As a photographer, Dave has photographed wolves in their natural environment; he's also a scuba instructor and co-host of several podcasts. Dave is the author of more than two dozen books and has contributed to many sites and publications including CNET, Forbes, PC World, How To Geek, and Insider.

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Everything you wanted to know about reverse photo search with Google Images

Google’s search by image feature is currently available for desktops and not your iPad or mobile phone. Thus, if a friend has sent you a forwarded image on WhatsApp or Facebook that you’d like to verify, you’ll have to first transfer the photograph to a desktop and then perform a reverse image search.

Too much work, right?

With Reverse Photos, you can perform reverse image searches on Android and iPhone in few easy steps. Just click the “Upload Image” button and choose an image from the photo gallery of your mobile phone. Next, click the “Show Matching Images” button and it will send your photo into Google’s image database and show visually similar photos.

How to do Reverse Image Search on your Mobile Phone

Google Reverse Image Search helps you quickly discover visually similar images from around the web. Upload a photograph from your desktop to Google Images and it will show you related images used on other websites and also different sizes of the same photo almost instantly.

What Is a Reverse Image Search used for?

Journalists can use the reverse search option to find the original source of an image or to know the approximate date when a picture was first published on the Internet. Photographers can use ‘search by image’ feature to know about other websites that are using their photographs without permission.

Propaganda campaigns are rampant during the Ukraine and Russian conflict. Open-source intelligence OSINT enthusiasts and practitioners on Twitter and Reddit are using reverse image search to verify the source and authenticity of viral photos as they may be used to spread disinformation.

Image Search & Privacy

Reverse Search is useful for verifying the source of photographs, WhatsApp images, screenshots and Internet memes. Tinder and Facebook users have usedSearch by Image to research profile pictures of their potential dates, travellers use it for finding location of photos while matrimonial sites use reverse search to detect fake uploads.

All your uploaded images are hosted anonymously on the Google Cloud and cannot be discovered by other users. All photos are automatically deleted from cloud storage within few hours of uploading.

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