Google Images Adds Personalized Gallery Requiring Sign-In and AI Image Generation in Search

Google Images is adding a 'For You' gallery of images tailored to users’ interests and browsing history, TechCrunch reported. The gallery updates in real time and lets signed-in users save images to collections that appear as tabs above the main view. The redesign targets visual discovery and inspiration, similar to Pinterest.

Users can create collections for topics such as vacation outfits or room designs and return to them later. Google Images launched 25 years ago. The changes are rolling out over the coming weeks on desktop in the U.S.

In English and require a Google Account. Google is also adding image generation directly in AI Overviews on Search using its Nano Banana model. The tool is intended for specific ideas that do not already exist online, such as visualizing a room painted red.

Image generation in AI Overviews will start to roll out over the coming weeks in English for all regions that currently support image creation in AI Mode.