Gboard is arguably one of the best keyboard apps for Android smartphones. In fact, it comes pre-installed on most devices as part of Google apps package. The app has improved a lot over the years with new features. Currently, the search giant is rolling out a server-side update enabling image support for its built-in clipboard. This update also replaces Google Search with Google Lens for some users.
GBoard comes with a number of useful tools like Google Translate, clipboard, GIF search, and more. Until now, the clipboard could only support texts but with the latest server-side update on Gboard version 9.5.11 or above, users can also copy/paste images.
With this new addition, users can copy images from the web and paste them in the text area of supported apps to share them. Normally, one has to first download the image and then share but not anymore if they are using GBoard and Google Chrome.
To use this feature, users will have to first enable the “Copy Image” flag from chrome://flags. Then, simply tap their desired image from the web and select copy. This action will add the copied image to GBoard’s built-in clipboard.
Now, to share the image, users will have to select the text area of supported apps to invoke GBoard and select the image from clipboard. Currently, only 21 apps support this and they are as listed below.
- AOSP messaging
- Badoo
- Google Docs
- Google Messages
- Hangouts
- Helo
- imo
- Line
- Messenger Lite
- Motorola Messages
- OK
- Samsung Messages
- Skype
- Snapchat
- Viber
- VK
- Zalo
Further, the new server-side also update seems to replace Google Search with Google Lens for some users, which is actually better than the trimmed-down Google Search. As a matter of fact, Google Lens is so useful that it is now also available on feature phones running KaiOS.
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