Gestures make mobile handling more agile and intuitive and if we also season them with AI to make them more versatile and ultimately intelligent, so much the better. Without going any further, I think the surrounding research is the best thing that has happened to Android in this sense in years. At first it was limited in terms of devices and functions, but surround to seek continues to vitaminize become more and more indispensable.
Be careful because His initial mission was not small: you just had to make a circle on the screen for the device to understand what was inside and search for it, what it contains as long as it can be a plain text, an image, a video … without the need for additional applications. It’s as if you saw it yourself, understood what was there and searched for it. Throughout these months it has been really useful to me in all types of tasks, both professional and personal.
Circle to search continues to improve and is now a must-have for me
Then he wanted to remove Shazam in terms of song recognition, but it continues to improve and is now valid for Scan and extract information from barcodes and QR codes. Another advantage of Surround to Search that came after its launch is the ability to share a full screen or parts of it in other applications or to other people without having to take a screenshot.
This new feature was highlighted by Android expert Mishaal Rahman in his X profile and the best part is that you don’t have to do anything. Let me explain: just update your device in order to benefit from this additional function.
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This way and if you have enabled ‘surround to search’, This will turn this code into information that you can read and clearly know what it is.. Considering the amount of code we encounter on a daily basis, this is a utility I will get a lot of use out of.
In Rahman’s post, he simply visits a website that has an embedded QR code and, after rounding it up, turns it into a much more intuitive and easier to interact with URL.
And this is just the beginning, since The surroundings to be searched still have potential to increase its capabilities and more importantly, that it can not only be used on Samsung Galaxy and Pixel, but reach more phones.
Cover | Montage with Qr scan icons created by chehuna – Flaticon and Iván Linares
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