Unlocking the Power of Google Lens: Search Your Screen Effortlessly on iOS

Unlocking the Power of Google Lens: Search Your Screen Effortlessly on iOS

Instantly search anything on your screen without switching apps! Google's latest update to Google Lens on iOS lets you search images, text, and more directly while browsing. Learn how this game-changing feature makes discovering information faster and easier.

By Rodger Mansfield, Technology Editor

March 11, 2025

Ever stumbled upon an intriguing image or unfamiliar term while browsing on your iPhone, wishing for instant information without the hassle of switching apps or taking screenshots?

Here's a Cool Tip:  Search with Google Lens on Your iPhone.

 Google's latest enhancement to Google Lens now makes this possible, transforming the way iOS users interact with on-screen content.

Google Lens, renowned for its visual search capabilities, has introduced a feature that allows iOS users to search their screens directly within the Chrome browser and Google app. 

This advancement eliminates the need for cumbersome steps, offering a seamless and efficient browsing experience.​

Understanding the Feature and Its Significance

Google's Les Paul Doodle is Here to Stay!

This week Google celebrated the life of legendary guitarist and inventor Les Paul with a very cool Google Doodle.

The playable and recordable doodle was put up for Paul's birthday on Thursday, June 9th.  And held over by popular demand to Friday.

But it now has a permanent home at http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html

So rock on all you Google fans, Rock On!

For those who missed the very playable Google Pacman Doodle, it's also still available at   http://www.google.com/pacman/

And for a list of all Google Doodles, click HERE.

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Stuff Happens

You may have noticed that OneCoolTip.com was unavailable for some time yesterday and today.  And some posts have been lost.

Unfortunately, the web publishing service we use for this blog, Blogger powered by Google, had technical troubles.  Hopefully, the service is back again and the missing posts will *magically* reappear.

All this serves as a reminder that in the digital age, even multi-billion dollar companies experience technical difficulties.  And having good backups is always a good thing to do.  Read more on backups here at OneCoolTip.com.

Because *Stuff Happens*.

Here's what Blogger and Google had to say about their recent woes:

Blogger is back5/13/2011 10:33:00 AM(Cross-posted from the Blogger Buzz blog) 

What a frustrating day. We’re very sorry that you’ve been unable to publish to Blogger for the past 20.5 hours. We’re nearly back to normal—you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored. Thank you for your patience while we fix this situation. We use Blogger for our own blogs, so we’ve also felt your pain. 

Here’s what happened: during scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night, we experienced some data corruption that impacted Blogger’s behavior. Since then, bloggers and readers may have experienced a variety of anomalies including intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages. A small subset of Blogger users (we estimate 0.16%) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts. Yesterday we returned Blogger to a pre-maintenance state and placed the service in read-only mode while we worked on restoring all content: that’s why you haven’t been able to publish. We rolled back to a version of Blogger as of Wednesday May 11, so your posts since then were temporarily removed. Those are the posts that we’re in the progress of restoring. 

Again, we are very sorry for the impact to our authors and readers. We try hard to ensure Blogger is always available for you to share your thoughts and opinions with the world, and we’ll do our best to prevent this from happening again.

**UPDATE 5/13/11 4:23 pm***

- Blogger appears to have restored missing blog posts.

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