Overview
- Google integrated its Gemini-derived Nano Banana model into the Photos editor via the Help me edit tool, enabling natural-language restyling such as Renaissance portraits or storybook illustrations.
- New personalized edits draw on private face groups to make person-specific changes like removing sunglasses, opening closed eyes, or adding a smile with a single request.
- A Create with AI section featuring ready-made templates is rolling out to the Create tab on Android in the U.S. and India this week, with personalized templates in the U.S. coming in the weeks ahead.
- Ask Photos is expanding to more than 100 additional countries with support for 17 new languages, and a new in-photo Ask button is launching in the U.S. on Android and iOS to answer questions or trigger edits from an image view.
- Conversational editing is starting to roll out on iOS in the U.S. now, while reports of a leaked, unreleased “Nano Banana 2” with improved fidelity remain unconfirmed by Google.