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Nano Banana is now available in the Google Photos editor. The app is also getting AI templates, personalized templates, an Ask button, and more accurate facial editing. Conversational editing is now expanding to iOS, and Ask Photos is rolling out in more countries.
The ‘Help me edit’ feature is also better at fixing faces and supports Google’s Nano Banana AI model.
The update affects multiple device categories, including phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, Android Auto and Automotive systems, and Android TV.
Up until now, only Pixel 10 series users have been able to leverage the AI-powered tool. With today's Feature Drop, the app is now expanding to the Pixel 8 and Pixel 9 series. Journal uses on-device Gemini Nano, which is the technical barrier preventing the app from making its way to older devices like the Pixel 7.
With the November 2025 Feature Drop, Google is bringing a slew of features to older Pixel devices, including the Journal app.
The updates were announced in a blog post by Google Photos Senior Director of Product Management Yael Marzan, who explained that the app has already embraced dozens of AI features, including the ability to edit images with a text prompt and ask questions about them. “Now, we’re improving our AI-powered tools and adding new ones,” she said.
Nano Banana started making waves when it appeared earlier this year as an unbranded demo. You simply feed the model an image and tell it what edits you want to see. Google said Nano Banana was destined for the Photos app back in October,