You simply wish to search your archived pictures, as a substitute of interacting with an AI assistant.
Contained in the app, faucet the Google account button at top-right, then go to Pictures settings > Preferences > Gemini options in Pictures, and switch off both “Search with Ask Pictures” or “Use Gemini in Pictures”.
When Google rolled out its new AI-powered ‘Ask Pictures’ search device, I gave it a go — however after discovering it slower, much less useful, and extra complicated than the traditional search, I at all times wound up urgent Google’s useful button labeled “Change to traditional search” or “Use traditional search” as a substitute. (Some people found you could possibly get there faster by double-tapping the magnifying glass.)
However a pair months in the past, Google eliminated all these simply accessible choices, and the double-tap now directs to Gemini as a substitute of Google’s previous system. I couldn’t determine the best way to flip it off at first… however fortunately, the choice for traditional search remains to be there, buried in a settings menu. See steps above.
In case your Google Pictures library additionally consists of your partner’s pictures, like me, and so they have a unique cellphone, yow will discover your personal pictures by looking for the precise identify of your cellphone’s digicam. To seek out it, faucet any of your pictures and scroll all the way down to the Particulars part.