Google Lens is a nifty tool that makes it trivial to image search objects around you. It’s great for reading barcodes and QR codes and for looking up web results by just pointing your camera at something. While Google Lens is pretty good and gets the job done, sometimes an image search query could use some added context. Google is working on improving Google Lens’ ability to accept additional context with some key changes.

When you access Google Lens and conduct an image search, you need to press the shutter button to start a search. After the image search is performed, you can add context to the search by tapping on the voice search icon. Additional context can take the form of voice or text.

We’ve spotted some changes that Google could soon make to this process. As part of the Google app v15.22.29.29.arm64 (beta), through which Google Lens is served on Android phones, Google is making it easier to start a search and add additional context to it. You can press the shutter button to start a search, but now you can also tap and hold (i.e., long press) the shutter button to simultaneously add additional context through your voice.

Here’s a demo of the upcoming functionality:

As you can see, adding context to the image search is now easier. There is also a new animation similar to what we see for Circle to Search.

We also spotted additional strings in the app that talk about upcoming functionality:

We have not yet been able to get Search with Video working, but it seems like a nifty addition to Google Lens that would allow you to record a video (instead of just clicking a picture) and then add additional search context through voice.

These new features are not currently live within Google Lens, which is available through Google Search on Android. The features may or may not roll out in the future.