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About this app

The Google App offers more ways to search about the things that matter to you. Try AI Overviews, Google Lens, and more to find quick answers, explore your interests, and stay up-to-date. Use text, voice, photos, and your camera to get help in new ways.

Feature highlights:
• Google Lens: Search what you see with Lens. Not sure how to describe something in words? Use your camera, an image, or a screenshot to search. Easily identify plants or animals, find similar products, translate text, and get step-by-step homework help.
• Hum to Search: Can't remember the name of that song? Hum the tune and the Google app will identify it for you.
• Discover: Stay up-to-date on topics that matter to you. Get personalized news, articles, and videos based on your interests.
• Try AI Overviews: A faster, easier way to search and explore insights from the web. Quickly find what you’re looking for with a snapshot of helpful information and links.
• Google Search Widget: Search from your home screen with the Google widget.

Search what you see with Google Lens:
•Translate text in over 100 languages
• Find exact or similar products
• Identify popular plants, animals, and landmarks
• Scan QR codes and barcodes
• Copy text
• Step-by-step explanations and solutions for homework problems
• Reverse image search: find the source, similar photos, and relation information

Get personalized updates in Discover:
• Stay in the know about topics that interest you.
• Start your morning with weather and top news.
• Get real-time updates on sports, movies, and events.
• Stay on top of your favorite artist’s latest album drops.
• Get stories about your interests and hobbies.
• Follow interesting topics, right from Search results.

Search safely and securely:
• All searches in the Google app are protected by encrypting the connection between your device and Google.
• Privacy controls are easy to find and use. Tap your profile picture to access your menu and delete recent search history from your account with one click.
• Search proactively filters webspam to help ensure that you see safe, high-quality results.

Learn more about what the Google app can do for you: https://search.google/
Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy
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Ratings and reviews

Edit 3/11/25: More UI changes for the worse. Removed(?) the weather feature, "Sponsored" ads more often. General trash, would give it even fewer stars if possible. The UI changes made over the last couple days are dumb as hell. You get two to three results for a search, then it goes to completely unrelated videos, and then starts throwing other search results at you as an entire new blocks of screen space.

They never did get assistant working 🤣. A decade of constant issues later, and it's being eaten alive by AI. It was never reliable, and it absolutely refuses to answer questions. It won't even attempt to. Instead it launches it's own web browser to pull up a random search whenever you ask it to turn on the lights, turn the volume down, or stop. Finally, we have competition! A plethora of FANTASTIC options. I'd rate this a 5/100, with GPT3 at 80/100, GPT4 at 90/100, and Grok around 90/100.

Google is constantly either lagging for me or shutting down on me completely. The random lagging/shutting down got so bad that the app was beginning to interfere with some of my other, unrelated apps, so apart from updating the app, which made no difference, I had no other choice but to put Google in deep sleep to see if doing so would make a difference, but it really hasn't. I don't know what the issue is, but something needs to be done because this is getting frustrating.

What’s new

• Use voice commands while navigating – even when your device has no connection. Try saying "cancel my navigation" "what's my ETA?" or "what's my next turn?"
• It's easier to access privacy settings from the homescreen. Just tap your Google Account profile picture.