You can now edit shots on Google Photos with voice and text prompts

Google has announced that folks in India, Australia, and Japan can now edit their shots on Google Photos using simple text commands. The feature was previously exclusive to Pixel 10 users in the US.

If you are in one of those newly supported countries, you will start seeing a “Help me Edit” box pop up whenever you hit edit on a picture. You simply tap that, type exactly what you want to happen, and the software handles the rest.

Just ask the AI nicely

You might ask it to “reduce the background blur” or “remove the motorcycle in the background” without ever needing to touch a saturation slider or learn what contrast actually does.

It works for the surprisingly specific stuff too. You can effectively tell the app to fix a friend’s awkward pose, remove their glasses, or even force their eyes open if they blinked at the exact wrong moment.

Technically, all this runs on Google’s Nano Banana image model. And the model is efficient enough to process everything directly on your device.

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The really good news is that you do not need the absolute latest hardware to run this. It works on any Android phone with at least 4GB of RAM running Android 8.0 or higher. Google is also leaning heavily into localisation here. The tool supports a massive list of Indian languages beyond just English, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, and Gujarati.

To keep things transparent, Google is rolling out C2PA Content Credentials alongside the editor. This is basically metadata that tags images so you know if something was generated or tweaked by AI. It is a necessary move as social platforms try to figure out how to label synthetic media.