We love seeing how you’re using Ask Photos in early access, like asking “suggest photos that’d make great phone backgrounds” or “what did I eat on my trip to Barcelona?” Ask Photos uses Gemini models to answer complex queries like these, but we’ve also heard your feedback that it should return more photos faster for simple searches, like “beach” or “dogs.”

To address this, we’re bringing the best of Photos’ classic search feature into Ask Photos and improving latency, so you can get fast help with simple and complex queries in one place. You’ll now see results right away while Gemini models continue to work in the background to find the most relevant photos or information for more complex queries.

With these improvements, Ask Photos is opening up beyond early access and starting to roll out to more eligible users in the U.S. Keep the feedback coming!