{"id":280909,"date":"2026-06-24T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/gemini-in-chrome-gets-new-select-from-screen-tool-on-desktop\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:00:10","slug":"gemini-in-chrome-gets-new-select-from-screen-tool-on-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/gemini-in-chrome-gets-new-select-from-screen-tool-on-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini in Chrome gets new &#8216;Select from screen&#8217; tool on desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/chrome-select-from-screen-3681130\/\">Gemini in Chrome gets new &#8216;Select from screen&#8217; tool on desktop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/chrome-select-from-screen-3681130\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/chrome-select-from-screen-3681130\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 17:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Megan Ellis \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google\u2019s Chrome browser has already let you search with on-screen content thanks to tools like Google Lens.<\/li>\n<li>This week, Chrome is adding a new way to incorporate screen input when looking things up with Gemini.<\/li>\n<li>Users will find a new \u201cSelect from screen\u201d option when providing content for Gemini to see.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google is clearly enamored with the idea of using screen content to initiate searches, and over the years we\u2019ve seen variation after variation on this same theme, from Google Lens to Circle to Search. Google\u2019s never been a company to shy away from a little redundancy, and this week it\u2019s sharing its very latest tool for pulling off this same sort of trick.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Google updated its Gemini in Chrome support pages to introduce a new \u201cSelect from screen\u201d tool for Chrome on the desktop. Accessing it is pretty straightforward, with users needing to first click \u201cAsk Gemini,\u201d then hitting the plus sign for Gemini\u2019s Add menu. Here, you can finally choose \u201cSelect from screen\u201d to start drawing a box around the content you want Gemini looking at. That include multiple screen areas at once. When you have them all highlighted, you can go ahead and present Gemini with your prompt.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all there is to using it, and as you can likely see, this already feels very close to Chrome\u2019s integration with Google Lens, only here leaning harder on Gemini, while Lens takes you to a regular Google Search page \u2014 to be fair, one where you can always still engage with AI Mode.<\/p>\n<p>You obviously need to have Gemini in Chrome enabled to take advantage of this input feature, and that requires being signed in to the browser with a Google account \u2014 it won\u2019t work in Incognito. If that\u2019s a concern of yours, Chrome\u2019s Lens support still works without an account, even in Incognito.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome users should start seeing \u201cSelect from screen\u201d available in their browsers as of now. If you\u2019re not getting it (and you\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/chrome-select-from-screen-3681130\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemini in Chrome gets new &#8216;Select from screen&#8217; tool on desktop https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/chrome-select-from-screen-3681130\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-24&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/the-gemini-in-chrome-website-on-a-laptop-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-280909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280914,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280909\/revisions\/280914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}