Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing the model’s (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) viral image editing and generation to AI Mode, as well as Google Lens.
In Search’s AI Mode, it starts with a new ‘plus’ icon in the bottom-left corner of the prompt box. Voice input and Lens is moved to the right. (Similarly, AI Mode this week swapped out the carousel of suggestions on this page for a more straightforward list of prompts.)
This menu lets you access the Gallery (like before), Camera, and Create Images with a banana emoji. If you choose the last option, the prompt hint changes to “Describe your image.” You can generate entirely new ones, or add an image to make edits.
Like the Gemini app, you can download this image and share. What’s generated features a Gemini spark watermark in the bottom-right corner.
The more prominent Nano Banana integration is in Google Lens. After adding Search “Live” (and integrating the “Homework” filter directly into “Search”), there is now a “Create” tab. (A small redesign moves the text labels to below the icon, so more filters can appear side-by-side.)
It prompts you to capture, creature, and share, with the banana emoji in the shutter button. Compared to the other filters, Create defaults you to the front-facing camera for a selfie, with a lens switcher available at the right. Hitting capture adds that image to AI Mode’s prompt box where you can enter a prompt.
We’re seeing Nano Banana in Google Lens and AI Mode on Android today (in the US) with an account opted into the AI Mode Search Lab.
Meanwhile, Google this week brought AI Mode to 35 new languages and over 40 new countries/territories to bring the total list to 200. The full list is available here.
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