Post: Google Photos brings its prompt-based editing feature to India, Australia and Japan

Google Photos brings its prompt-based editing feature to India, Australia and Japan

Google is bringing AI-powered photo editing to more users around the world, making it easy to fix up your photos with simple text commands instead of complex editing tools.

The company announced on Tuesday that it is expanding natural language-based editing in Google Photos to additional countries, including Australia, India and Japan. The feature, which Google first launched for Pixel 10 users in the U.S. in August, lets people annotate these changes to their photos instead of manually adjusting sliders or learning complicated editing software.

Users in these newly supported countries will now see a “Help me” box when tapping an edit option on a photo. From there, they can either select from suggested prompts or type in their requests in plain language. For example, you can tell the app to “remove the motorcycle in the background,” “reduce the blur in the background,” or use more general commands like “restore this old photo.”

AI can also handle incredibly specific requests. You can ask it to edit a friend’s pose, remove their glasses, or even open their eyes in a photo where they blink. The feature uses Google’s Nano Banana image model to transform photos, and all processing takes place directly within the app without requiring an Internet connection for the actual editing.

The feature will work on any Android device with at least 4GB of RAM running Android 8.0 or higher, meaning it’s not limited to Google’s own Pixel phones. Along with this geographic expansion, Google is also adding language support beyond English, including Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali, and Gujarati, making the tool accessible to millions more users in their native languages.

Google is also supporting C2PA content certification in Google Photos for these countries. This metadata will indicate when an image was created or modified using AI. As AI-infused and AI-edited images become more common, social media platforms are grappling with ways to label AI content, and credentials like C2PA help users understand what they’re looking at.

The expansion is the latest in Google’s aggressive push to integrate Google’s entire Google Photos. Last November, the company expanded its AI-powered search capabilities to more than 100 countries with support for more than 17 languages. It also introduced AI templates that can transform photos into different artistic styles. Just last week, Google rolled out a “Meme Me” feature that lets users combine reference templates with their own photos to create memes.

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