As promised last month, Google Photos is getting AI enhancements powered by Gemini’s top-rated image editing model Nano Banana. Users can now open a photo, select “Help me edit” and type “Remove Riley’s sunglasses, open my eyes, make Engel smile and open her eyes” to quickly doctor a shot. Photos will draw on images from your private library of “face groups” to generate “personalized, accurate edits of people in your photo library,” Google says. The company is also introducing a new “Ask” button to get information about photos and make requests and expanding natural language instruction.

TechRadar calls the changes “subtle, but transformative,” because “you don’t need to know anything about image masks, layer blending, or clone-stamp tools. You just tell the app what you want” — a big plus “for casual users who don’t want to learn a complicated image editor or spend 15 minutes retouching a vacation photo from years ago.”

And Ars Technica points out that the upgrade is “not just for Google’s Android platform. Nano Banana edits are also coming to the iOS version of the app” for U.S. users.

While the Photos app had already incorporated some conversational editing with its “Help Me Edit” feature, it was powered by an older model that didn’t perform as well, according to Ars Technica, which calls Nano Banana “market-leading,” while warning that editing with it “will produce AI slop, yes, but it’s better slop.”

In a blog post, Google lists six new Photos features resulting from the model upgrade. In addition to the Ask edits and iOS rollout, there is a new style transformer that can turn an image into something that looks like anime, or a Renaissance painting.

Ready-made AI templates are now added to the Create tab on Android in the U.S. and India starting this week. In the coming weeks, U.S. users will also gain access to “personalized templates” that “use insights about you from your photo gallery to create edits unique to your hobbies and experiences,” Google says.

“Last year, Google introduced an AI-powered search feature for the Photos app with an initial launch in the United States” that now expands “to more than 100 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and South Africa,” writes TechCrunch, adding that “it will support more than 17 new languages such as Arabic, Bengali, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.”

The Ask button coming to Android and iOS users in the U.S. is the sixth new feature and will hold conversations about photos and make requested edits.