Circle to Search customers on Samsung Galaxy gadgets could have observed one thing peculiar concerning the AI search instrument in latest weeks. The shortcut to Google Lens was eliminated. This is why.

In a discussion board put up on the official Group in Korea, a Samsung moderator defined yesterday that the Lens shortcut in Circle to Search was eliminated “as a consequence of a change within the idea of the Google app.”

Nonetheless, Galaxy system customers who nonetheless wish to use Lens can obtain the Google Lens app from the Play Retailer and launch the picture recognition software program that method.

Beforehand, Lens was built-in into Circle to Search moderately seamlessly. You possibly can see that in our featured picture above.

Galaxy system customers may press and maintain the gesture tab (or house nav button) in One UI to summon Circle to Search and faucet the Lens icon positioned proper subsequent to the Assistant icon within the search bar.

Due to this latest improvement, the Lens shortcut is not there, however Circle to Search customers can nonetheless faucet the microphone icon to entry Google Assistant.

Though this is not an enormous deal, it would lead to separating the Circle to Search and Google Lens camps a bit additional aside, despite the fact that each strategies use the identical Google know-how at their core.