Now it’s time for the fun part — identifying a plant with Google Lens. To use Google Lens from the Google app, open the app and find Google Lens as a camera icon in the search bar. Tap the icon, point your camera at your plant of choice, and capture an image. After snapping the photo, Google provides results on that plant based on its relevance to other similar images on the web.
However, if you want to identify a plant from a photo in your camera roll, this is where having downloaded pictures will come in handy. Open Google Photos and give it permission to access your images. Select the photo of the plant you want to identify and then click the camera icon labeled “Lens.” Search results will pop up at the bottom of your screen. It’s reassuring to know that Google Lens filters out explicit results so it remains a safe tool for its users.