Help Me Edit: Just Talk or Type, Google Photos Does the Editing!

New Delhi: Google has started expanding its AI-powered photo editing tools in Google Photos to more countries, including India, Australia, and Japan. The update allows people to edit photos by simply describing what they want to change using text or voice, instead of manually adjusting editing tools.

The feature appears as a ‘Help me edit’ option inside Google Photos. Users can choose from suggested prompts or type their own instructions in plain language. For example, they can ask the app to remove objects from the background, reduce blur, fix lighting, restore old photos, or improve colours. Multiple edits can also be combined in a single request.

Google says the AI can handle detailed and personalised changes as well. Users can ask it to remove sunglasses, open someone’s eyes in a group photo, adjust facial expressions, or edit a person’s pose. The system uses Nano Banana, Google’s image-generation model, to carry out these changes. Importantly, the actual editing happens directly on the device and does not require an internet connection.

The AI editing feature is not limited to Pixel phones. It works on any Android device with at least 4GB RAM running Android 8.0 or newer, making it available to a much wider user base. Along with the rollout, Google has added support for several Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, and Gujarati, helping users interact with the tool in their preferred language.

Google is also introducing C2PA content credentials in Google Photos. This metadata helps indicate whether an image has been edited using AI, offering more transparency as AI-modified images become more common online.

The expansion reflects Google’s broader effort to embed AI across Google Photos. Over the past year, the company has introduced AI-based search, creative photo styles, and meme-generation tools, signalling a strong push toward making photo editing more intuitive and accessible.