Google Lens is a useful feature in Google Chrome. However, do you know that you can disable or reenable it according to your requirement? In this post, MiniTool Software will show you how to disable and enable Google Lens in Google Chrome.
What Is Google Lens?
Google Lens is an object identification feature in Google Chrome. When you want to search, translate, and identify what you see in Chrome, you can use this feature.
By default, the Lens feature is enabled in Chrome. However, you may not want to use this feature in Chrome. Then, you can choose to disable it. Or this feature is turned on by mistake and you want to enable it.
In this post, we will show you the ways to enable and disable Google Lens in Chrome. No matter whether you use Chrome on a Windows PC, Mac computer, Android phone or tablet, iPhone or iPad, you can use the methods mentioned here to manage Google Lens.
How to Enable Google Lens in Chrome?
You can enable Google Lens in Chrome via Chrome://flags. Here is how to enable Google Lens in Chrome:
Step 1: Open Chrome on your device.
Step 2: Copy and paste this link to the address bar in Chrome: Chrome://flags, then press Enter to enter the page.
Step 3: Press Ctrl + F to bring up the search box in Chrome. You can see the search box in the top-right corner of Chrome.
Step 4: Type or directly copy & paste enable Lens features in Chrome into the search box. This will directly jump to the Enable Lens features in Chrome section.
Step 5: Expand the options next to Enable Lens features in Chrome, then select Enabled.
Step 6: Click the Relaunch button.
After these steps, Google Lens is enabled in your Google Chrome.
How to Disable Google Lens in Chrome?
If you don’t want to use this feature in your Chrome, you can disable it. Here is how to disable Google Lens in Chrome:
Step 1: Open Chrome on your device.
Step 2: Copy and paste Chrome://flags to the address bar in Chrome, then press Enter to enter the page.
Step 3: Press Ctrl + F to bring up the search box in Chrome.
Step 4: Type or directly copy & paste enable Lens features in Chrome into the search box. This will directly jump to the Enable Lens features in Chrome section. However, if this feature is set as Enabled, you should find it at the top of this page.
Step 5: Expand the options next to Enable Lens features in Chrome, then select Disabled.
Step 6: Click the Relaunch button.
After these steps, the Google Lens feature in Chrome is disabled.
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Wrapping Things up
After reading this post, you should know how to disable and enable Google Lens in Chrome. It is very easy to do this job. If you have other issues that need to be fixed, you can let us know in the comments.
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Stella has been working in MiniTool Software as an English Editor for more than 7 years. Her articles mainly cover the fields of data recovery including storage media data recovery and phone data recovery, YouTube videos download, partition management, and video conversions.