Like any kind of apps and tools, Google Lens has advantages and disadvantages you should know before using. In this post, we will talk about them one by one.
What are the benefits of Google Lens?
🔍You can recognize flowers, trees and old buildings
If you’re traveling, you often see ancient buildings 🏛 and want to know more about them before asking the name. So take a photo with the Google Lens camera and it will tell you more about the photo. You can also use it to identify flowers and plants!
🔍Search for your favorite product and find it in online stores worldwide 🛒
With Google Lens, you can scan barcodes or product images on a brochure or on a cloth or dish at your friend’s house to easily find online shopping links, read reviews, and compare prices. This makes the shopping process much easier.
🔍It helps you in translation
📖 Google Lens can translate any text. Just take a picture of a book, advertisement, whiteboard, product, TV or any text in the real world with Google Lens. it translates text from one language to any other language. Now copy this text and use it anywhere you want. The lens is a valuable tool for travelers and language learners.
🔍It can solve your homework
📝 This feature is great for college and university students. You can take a picture of a math, chemistry or physics problem or a formula. Google Lens finds solutions on the web.
Whether the assignment is written on paper or on the screen, or simple or advanced math, chemistry, physics or biology, Lenz will quickly find solutions for you.
Open this post if you want to see the safety of google lens🙃
🔍Find the name of a song or artist
If you want to find a song’s name, lyrics, or artist, open Google Search (not the Google Lens app) and tap the microphone to record. You can hum, whistle or just sing the melody, then choose from the results, find the lyrics, listen to the song or watch the music video.
If for any reason you do not have the Google Lens application on your mobile phone, you can enter this app through Google search and select the camera icon to enter it and use its features. Lens is available for all devices, android, iPhone or desktop.
What are some disadvantages Google lens?
Need help to understand the picture
After taking a photo, Google Lens only selects a part of the photo with the frame and ignores the rest of the photo. So you can drag next to that box with your finger and select the whole image
🔏has access to your gallery
It should use your camera and look at your photos. This makes some of us worry about our privacy
📱 May not work on some mobile phones
It may not work well on some devices, so not everyone can use it.
🙄 Google lens is not always accurate and sometimes it can be wrong. See: How accurate is google lens? (this post has gifs and pictuers and help you see lens accuracy)
🔋It drains the phone’s battery quickly
Using the camera lens too much can drain your phone’s battery, especially when your device is old.
📶It needs Internet connection
You need an internet connection to use all the features of Google Lens. So, if you were in a jungle or an island or a place where there was no internet, remember to take pictures of things. So you can search for them after returning from your trip.
See: how to see google lens history in this post.
How useful do you think Google Lens is? Write to me in the comments below💚
