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 easier to fix your photos with simple text commands instead of complicated editing tools.

The company announced Tuesday that it is expanding natural language-based editing in Google Photos to more countries, including Australia, India and Japan. The feature, which Google first launched Pixel 10 users in the United States last August, lets people describe the changes they want to make to their photos rather than manually adjusting sliders or learning complex editing software.

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

AI can also handle surprisingly specific requests. You can ask him to change a friend’s pose, remove his glasses, or even make him open his eyes in a photo where he’s blinking. The feature uses Google’s Nano Banana image template to transform photos, and all the processing happens right in 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 Pixel phones. Along with this geographic expansion, Google is also adding support for languages ​​other than English, including Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali and Gujarati, making the tool accessible to millions more users in their native language.

Google is also rolling out support for C2PA content credentials in Google Photos for these countries. This metadata will indicate when an image was created or edited using AI. As AI-generated and edited images become more commonplace, social media platforms are grappling with how to label AI contentand credentials like C2PA help users understand what they’re looking at.

This expansion is the latest in Google’s aggressive efforts to integrate AI into Google Photos. Last November, the company AI-powered extended search capabilities in over 100 countries with support for over 17 languages. It also introduced AI models that can convert photos into different artistic styles. Last week, Google rolled out a “Meme me” feature that lets users combine reference models with their own images to create memes.