Subj : Curious about whats in your photos, Windows 11 users? Soon youll
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Sep 10 2024 21:30:05

Curious about whats in your photos, Windows 11 users? Soon youll be able to 
investigate with Bing reverse image search right from the Photos app

Date:
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:21:46 +0000

Description:
Microsofts updated Photos app now includes Bing-powered visual search, 
smoother gallery navigation, and quicker access to image-editing tools.

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 Microsoft s Photos app in Windows 11 is getting a Visual Search with Bing 
feature, which will enable you to search for images similar to whatever 
pictures youre viewing. 

The updated version of the Photos app also brings improved navigation for 
your photo gallery, quick access to image editing capabilities, and some 
tweaks to make Photos a better user experience overall. 

Photos is the default app for viewing and organizing pictures in Windows and 
this update brings some long-awaited features to it. While youre looking at a 
picture and feel a tinge of curiosity about something in it, you can use 
Visual Search with Bing to perform an instant reverse image search, which 
will prompt Bing to scour the internet for similar images and any information 
that might be relevant to the image youre looking up (similar to Googles 
reverse image search ). 

A similar feature already exists in the Snipping Tool app, which enables you 
to do this after you take a screenshot. (Image credit: 
Shutterstock/insta_photos) What else is in the pipeline for the Photos app? 

As well as the new reverse image search capabilities, smoother gallery 
navigation will make flicking through pictures easier and youll be able to 
jump straight into image-editing tools from your desktop or File Explorer . 

The enhanced Photos app is currently available via the Windows Insider 
Program, a special group of Windows users who get early access to Windows 
features. Regular users hopefully wont have to wait long, as the majority of 
features that make it to this preview state are usually rolled out widely 
later on in future cumulative Windows 11 updates. 

Users of the Photos app in Windows 10 can also now sync their iCloud photos, 
Apples cloud storage for images, a feature thats been in Windows 11 for some 
time. This means if you have a Windows PC and an iPhone or iPad, you can 
easily access your iCloud photos after syncing them in the Photos app on your 
Windows 10 device. 

I dont know how many people will find this useful as Google search still 
currently dominates the search market and offers its own image-searching 
capabilities, but its good to give users more tools and possibilities to 
interact with their own media. Bing reverse image search has more convincing 
to do, as most people who have even heard of reverse image search would 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/curious-about-whats-in-your-photos
-windows-11-users-soon-youll-be-able-to-investigate-with-bing-reverse-image-se
arch-right-from-the-photos-app


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