How To Download & Install Google Reverse Image Search Shortcut On iPhone

By | August 16, 2023

Have a photo on your iPhone and want to search for its source or similar photos without going through too much hassle? We’ve got you covered. With the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut, all that is history. The Google Reverse Image Search shortcut is a powerful tool that allows you to search for the source of an image or similar images of the images you already have on your iPhone without any hurdles. It is a helpful way to find where an image was taken from, or whether it has been used elsewhere on the internet. With the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut, performing a reverse image search is just a matter of a few taps, without having to manually upload the image to Google.

The Google Reverse Image Search shortcut saves you a lot of time as compared to manually uploading images to Google. If it weren’t for the shortcut, you would have to save the image to your camera roll, open Google Images in your browser and then manually upload the photo to view the required details and information. This shortcut enables you to perform a reverse image search in just a jiffy, without even having to leave the Shortcuts app. 

One more benefit of the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut is that it is highly customizable as per the users’ needs. The shortcut can be modified to add additional steps or to tweak the search parameters. As an example, you can add a step to save the search results to a note or send them to a friend through iMessage. Not only this, but you can also modify the search parameters to specify the region or language you want to search in. Thus, in this article, we will be going through the step-by-step instructions on how to download and install the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut on iPhone in a few simple steps!

Steps To Download & Install Google Reverse Image Search Shortcut

Step 1. Open a browser on your iPhone (which is Safari, by default), and go to the following link – https://routinehub.co/shortcut/916

This link will direct you to the RoutineHub page for the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut, from which you can download the shortcut. RoutineHub is a third-party developer for iOS that primarily focuses on developing shortcuts. It hosts a wide range of shortcuts created and used by users around the world. The Google Reverse Image Search shortcut is one of the many such useful shortcuts you can find on RoutineHub.

Step 2. Once you’ve opened the RoutineHub page for the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut, tap the ‘Get Shortcut’ button on the page. 

Tap the ‘Get Shortcut’ button on the RoutineHub page for the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut to initiate the download process for the shortcut.

Step 3. After a successful download, a redirect to the Shortcuts app will open. Tap on the ‘Add Untrusted Shortcut’ button to begin the installation. 

On tapping the ‘Get Shortcut’ button on the RoutineHub page, the download will initiate and complete in a few seconds (purely reliant on internet connection speed), and you will be redirected to the Shortcuts app, where you will be prompted to add the shortcut to your Shortcuts library. To proceed, tap on the ‘Add Untrusted Shortcut’ button.

The Shortcuts app asks you before adding a shortcut from a third-party source (labelled as untrusted) as it is designed to protect your iPhone from malicious shortcuts. Only shortcuts created by Apple or those downloaded from the App Store are considered trusted and allowed by default. But, by giving permission to download untrusted shortcuts, you can still download and use shortcuts from third-party developers like RoutineHub.

Step 4. Open the Shortcuts app from your home screen.

You can access the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut from the Shortcuts app on your home screen post adding it to your library. Open the Shortcuts app to see a list of all shortcuts you have installed so far on your iPhone.

Step 5. Find the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut by searching for it

You can view a list of all the shortcuts installed on your phone in the Shortcuts app. Look for the ‘Google Reverse Image Search’ shortcut, and tap on it to open the shortcut.

Step 6. Grant the shortcut access to your photos by tapping ‘OK’

In order to search for the source and similar images of your photo, by uploading it to Google, the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut needs access to your photos. You will be prompted to give the shortcut access to your photos. Click on ‘OK’ when prompted.

Step 7. Pick the image you want to search

Once the shortcut has access to your photos, a page consisting of your recently saved images will open, and you will be prompted to select the image you wish to search. Select the image you want to search for and tap ‘Next’ to proceed.

After tapping ‘Next’, the image will start being uploaded to Google by the shortcut and look for similar images. A progress bar at the bottom of the screen will show you how much time is remaining. Post successful upload, the search for similar images will start, and the results will be displayed on your iPhone screen in a few seconds or longer, depending upon the size of the image and the speed of the internet connection. 

After a successful search, the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut will display a list of similar images alongside links to the websites they appear. You can see where the image is being used by clicking any of those links and also find the source of any image you might want to find the source of.

In short, the steps on how to download and install the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut on iPhone are – Open the RoutineHub page for the shortcut, tap on the ‘Get Shortcut’ button, click on ‘Add Untrusted Shortcut’, open the Shortcuts app, click on ‘OK’ to grant the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut access to your photos, pick the image you want to search and wait for the shortcut to upload the image to Google and find out the required information. By following these steps, you can easily use the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut to search for information about images on your iPhone such as sources and websites where they are being used.

Conclusion

On the whole, the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut is a great tool to save you time as well as effort while performing reverse image searches on your iPhone. You should now be easily able to search for similar images using images you already have on your phone, without having to manually upload the image to Google, for you have downloaded and installed the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut. 

In this article, we covered the 7 steps to how to download and install the Google Reverse Image Search shortcut on iPhone, its benefits and its settings also. We hope you found this article interesting and informative. Thank you for reading, and keep following us for more such interesting articles!

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