Search in Google Photos
If your screenshots are in Google Photos, type a word you remember into its search box. Photos can find text that appears in pictures, so a word from a receipt or a chat often brings the screenshot up. It works best on clear, printed text.
Read one screenshot with Google Lens
Once you've found a screenshot, open it and tap the Lens button (in Google Photos, or the Google app). You can select the text on it, copy it, or translate it. Lens works on one picture at a time, so it helps after you've found the screenshot, not before.
The Pixel Screenshots app
Pixel 9 and newer phones have Google's Pixel Screenshots app, which collects screenshots and lets you search them. It's only on those Pixel phones.
Tips for better results
- Search for an unusual word rather than a common one: a shop's name or a code finds more than “order”.
- Try the start of a long word if you're not sure how it ends.
- Dark, tiny or blurry text is hard for any reader, so it may need a second word to find.
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