Besides Gemini automation, Google today announced the latest Circle to Search features for the Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10.
Circle to Search is now available on over 580 million Android devices. Today’s update lets the visual search feature “explore multiple objects in an image, all at once.”
Let’s say you’re reading a travel blog on your phone, and you see a breathtaking photo of a variety of vibrant, colorful fish. You want to explore more. Instead of wondering what’s what, just circle all the fish on your screen and ask “what are all these fish, and how do they coexist?” Circle to Search will identify each unique species you’ve selected, from the Honeycomb Filefish to the Moon Jellyfish. Beyond just naming them and surfacing related images, it will explain the science behind their underwater community, and give you links out to the web to dive deeper.
This also results in a better shopping experience when you want to replicate a room’s decor or someone’s outfit. In the latter case, you can tap a “Find the look” button above the new “Ask anything” bar.
Circle to Search has moved that text field from the top of your screen to the bottom. Just like AI Mode, this experience is more like a chat.
Say you see an outfit you love on social media and you want to replicate the vibe. Now, you can search for every piece — accessories, clothing and shoes — all at once.
Similarly, Google is integrating virtual try-on with Circle to Search.
Google notes how seeing “more visual results from a single search” will create “new opportunities for merchants and businesses to be discovered.”
Behind the scenes, Circle to Search leverages Gemini 3’s agentic planning, reasoning, and tool calling. CtS is no longer “simply looking for a single match.” Instead, this model “thinks through a multi-step plan to get you the best results for everything you search on your screen.”
Google automatically identifies the “most important parts of an image to crop, runs several searches at once, and cross-references what it finds to compile a final response — including images from across the web — for each item you’ve searched.”
These features are rolling out now to the Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 series.
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