Google Lens will no longer start up in your phone's gallery of local pics, and instead jump right to your camera's viewfinder.

With Circle to Search now handling on-device visual queries, Google Lens has been repositioned to focus on real-world search. Instead of opening to a gallery of existing photos, Lens now immediately launches the camera for instant visual search of your surroundings.

Now that we have Circle to Search, Google Lens has been updated so that it immediately starts the camera viewfinder upon launch.