Overview

• Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash image update, nicknamed Nano Banana, is live in the Gemini app and elevates image editing with multi‑turn, text‑guided changes and stronger likeness preservation.
• Hands-on tests by Business Insider show it excels at small, incremental edits—such as adding glasses or changing a shirt color—while retaining fine details better than several rivals.
• PC Gamer notes the model’s ability to combine photos and maintain consistency across variations, though it struggled with precise tasks like cropping to a specific aspect ratio.
• Google cites a top placement on LMArena’s image‑editing leaderboard, and reviewers describe the tool as fast, easy to use, and potentially competitive with costlier, traditional editors.
• All outputs include a visible AI mark and an invisible SynthID watermark, but the detector isn’t widely available and the visible label can be subtle enough to overlook or remove.