
If the image you want is in the “Recent” file list, tap on it. For our example, we’re going to upload an image from a cloud service.Ī file manager displays showing recent images. Tap “Documents” to upload an image from your device or from almost any service you have running on your mobile device that stores images. If you want to take a photo of something you see and search using that image, tap “Capture image“.

The “Select an action” dialog box displays at the bottom of the screen. Here is how to use the website if you have an Android device. The results of the reverse image search display in a new tab. You can also choose to “Upload Another” image. Once the image is uploaded, tap “Show Matches“. Select the album containing the image you want. If you want to take a photo of something you see and search using that image, tap “Take Photo“. You can upload an image from your photo library (including the camera roll and albums) or almost any service you have running on your mobile device that stores images.įor our example, we’re going to select an image we have in an album in our Photo Library. A popup menu displays providing several ways to get or select an image for the reverse image search. Once Chrome has permission to access your photos, return to the web page and tap “Upload Picture” again. To manually give Chrome permission to access your photos, go to “Settings” > “Chrome” and turn on the “Photos” slider. Click “Cancel” to return to the main page. You may see the following screen, if you’ve turned off Chrome’s access to photos. Tap “OK” to give Chrome permission to access your photos. The first time Chrome needs access to your photos on your iOS device, you’ll see the following dialog box. You can also upload images from cloud services.

It allows you to search using images from your camera roll and photo albums on your mobile device. The website uses Google to do the image search, no matter which browser you use on your iPhone or iPad, including Safari and Chrome. We’ll show you how to perform a reverse image search on iOS & Android. Identify unknown plants, animals, and more. Debunking faked images and social media posts and profiles.

Tracking down wallpapers and higher resolution versions of images. Some practical uses for reverse image search include:įinding information about unlabeled products and other objects. You might be wondering why you would use reverse image search, besides locating the source of an image.
