The best new Android feature in years is Search Circle. So it’s no surprise that iPhone users are happy to know that there is a way to replicate it.
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On X, formerly known as Twitter, Minsang Choi, the design manager of Google Lens, offered https://twitter.com/radiofun8/status/1788006512755097891/ A tip for a circle-like function for searching. It’s not the exact mechanism on Android, where you hold down the Home button to take a snapshot of your screen and highlight what you want the search engine to retrieve. However, it invokes Google Lens, which works like Circle for Search on Android devices that support it.
If you follow the instructions in 9to5Google, It is quite simple to configure. You will need the google app on your iPhone and Shortcuts application front and center. So, click this link on your iPhone to take the shortcut.
Once you’re in Shortcuts, you’ll want to go back to the iOS Settings app and configure your Accessibility settings. Accessibilityscroll to Physical and motor section and touch the Tap option. On the next page, scroll down and select Back Touch of the Tap menu at the bottom of the screen.
Here, you can assign the shortcut to a double or triple tap. I would suggest the latter as it is easier to distinguish between three. touch for a function that two . On the last screen, scroll to the Shortcuts section and select the option to Find your screenshot.
When everything is set up, you should be able to triple tap the back of your device on any screen to activate the shortcut. I tried it in iPhone 15 Pro Max with a video on TikTok, text on DuckDuckGo, and Stories on Instagram. TikTok let me select what I wanted to search before However, on Instagram and DuckDuckGo, the shortcut immediately searched for the main image that was on screen without my being able to select it.
Apple’s shortcut is not as seamless as using Circle to search. Sometimes, you’ll have to go back to the screen to reselect the item you want Google to find. This can be incredibly tedious if you’re trying to select a specific line of text at a time. At least on Android, Circle to Search is more integrated, so you can interact with the screen without being precise. You can’t do it with the iPhone yet.
Note that this isn’t a definitive replacement for Circle to Search on iOS, but until Google actually brings it to the iPhone, there’s always this roundabout way to get easy access to the search engine you were going to check out anyway.
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