In this guide, we will show you the steps through which you can view your Google Lens Search History. When it comes to image recognition technology, then the offering from the Silicon Valley giant is undoubtedly the best in this domain. Making use of its impressive visual analysis based on a neural network, it can give you the result of the scanned image within a second or two.
However, it had a major drawback- your search history wasn’t saved anywhere. So if you had performed a search and wish to again get hold of that at a later point in time, then it was an impossible task. Until now. Google has finally rolled out the ability to save and view your Google Lens search history. And in this guide, we will show you how to make full of this feature. So without further ado, let’s check it out.
How To View Your Google Lens Search History
- Head over to https://myaccount.google.com/
- Then go to Data & Privacy > Web and App Activity.
- Now checkmark Include Visual Search History > Turn on.
- Then head over to the myactivity.google.com
- Your Lens search history should be present there.
What’s the Benefit of Google Lens Search?
Being an avid user of the Google Lens application, it has come in handy in numerous situations. In this regard, some of its most useful features are the ability to search for similar-looking images, copy texts from images, and even translate them in just a few taps., not to mention the fact that it could now even solve math equations and diagrams as well.
So with such a wide variety of functionalities in its arsenal, it’s no hidden secret that it has quickly risen to being one of the most widely used apps for many users. However, up until this point, there was one major issue- if you have already searched for an image, translated texts, or carried out any other task via Google Lens and the next time you wish to do that again, then you’ll have to repeat the entire process from scratch.
This was due to the fact that the lens activity was being saved to your Google account. However, this issue has finally been addressed and you can now easily sync and save all your Lens activity with your Google account. As a result of this, the next time you carry out an activity via this app, you can count on the fact that if the need ever arises to get hold of this data, then you can easily get it from your history, there will be no need whatsoever to emulate the entire task all over again.
And this is why the app scores a brilliant 10/10 for incorporating this functionality, even though it came a tad bit late, but better late than never!
What if Include Visual Search History is Disabled
If the said option is disabled, your search history will still show you that you had used Google Lens, however, it won’t show the object that you scanned. On the other hand, upon enabling this functionality, you’ll able to get hold of the image of the object that you had scanned as well. Moreover, you could even download that image locally onto your device upon clicking on it from the history.
Does it Include Results from Google Photos/Circle to Search?
No, the Google Lens Search History doesn’t include results from the Circle to Search or the Google Lens that has been incorporated into the Photos. You’ll only get the history. from the standalone Lens app.
How to Disable Your Google Lens Search History
If you are using a family, shared, or workspace Google account, in other words, a shared account that is being used by someone else as well, then you might not want to have each and every activity that you carry out in the Google Lens app be saved to your account. This could prove to be a major privacy scare for some of you and that is completely understandable.
So in such cases, your best bet is to disable the Google Lens Search History. However, do note that there isn’t any option to hide individual activities [such as only hiding the images that you had scanned while leaving the translated text to be synced to your account], if you stop the sync, then it will be turned off for good, for each and every activity in the Lens app.
For some, this might be an extreme measure, but this is the cost that you would have to pay if you are willing to step into the risk-free zone of your activities not being tracked. So with that in mind, let’s make you aware of the steps through which you could get this job done.
- First off, head over to https://myaccount.google.com/
- Then go to Data & Privacy > Web and App Activity.
- Finally, uncheck Include Visual Search History.
That’s it. These were the steps to view your Google Lens search history. Likewise, we have also listed the steps to disable it. If you still have any queries concerning these steps, then the comments section is all yours. Make your voices heard there and we’ll get back to you at the earliest.
