How does Pixel Screenshots work? [Gallery]

Pixel Screenshots is one of the key features of Google’s new Pixel 9 series. The app takes advantage of the device’s Gemini Nano feature with Multimodality to summarize your screenshots and make them searchable.

Once you enable this feature, every screenshot you take will be absorbed into this new app. You will be able to import old screenshots transferred from an old phone.

The experience starts with the screenshot preview in the corner, which has been redesigned to separate the image preview so you have a wider range of actions. In addition to sharing and markup (comment/crop), you can delete the image and set a date-based reminder in Pixel Screenshots.

The Pixel Screenshots app makes great use of Material You, starting with the aforementioned reminders circle. Then comes the ability to manually group screenshots into collections and a grid of all your screenshots. You can also open a custom view by tapping the squiggly icon, which Google places as a vertical pill, on the right.

The All Screenshots page lets you switch between different grid densities, noting all screenshots of the app they were taken from and a short title generated by Gemini Nano.

When you open a screenshot, a longer summary and suggested actions appear, such as adding to Calendar, searching in Maps, and opening in Chrome if it’s a web page, with Google creating a deep link. In this view, you can swipe left/right to view other screenshots.

The app has a floating search bar at the bottom, which features voice input, for natural language queries. Google can directly answer the question as well as display the screenshot taken, showing another relevant screenshot. The search happens in real time and can be very fast.

Next to that is the FAB app to manually add photos from your gallery (Google Photos, Downloads, etc.) or open the camera to take a new photo of something you want to save.

The broader Gemini assistant can hand off the task to Pixel Screenshots when you add “in my screenshots” (or something similar) to your queries.