How to upload an image to google search on iphone

If you're a content creator, keeping costs down and protecting yourself from copyright lawsuits is of utmost importance. One of the most important ways of doing so is learning how to reverse image search. You can use your iPhone to check where an image came from, or what the licensing agreement is. Read on to learn three methods to reverse image search.

Related: How to Photo Search by Location on Your iPhone

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  • How to Do an Image Search Using the Google Chrome App
  • How to Do an Image Search Using Safari
  • How to Do an Advanced Image Search

How to Reverse Image Search on iPhone Using Google Chrome

Although Safari is the default browser on iPhones, many users enjoy using Chrome to do their web browsing. If Chrome is your preferred app, here’s how to do a reverse image search with it:

  1. Tap and select the image or the URL of the image you’re investigating and copy it.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  2. Open the Google Chrome app.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  3. Tap Images in the top center of your screen.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  4. In the lower right corner, tap on the ellipses to reach the More menu.

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  5. Scroll and tap Request Desktop Site.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  6. On the next screen, tap the camera icon in the search bar (you may need to zoom in by pinching out from the center of your screen to see it clearly).

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  7. Here you have a choice to either paste the image URL or upload an image. For this article, we are pasting a URL. Please note that uploading an image is exactly the same process except that you choose an image from your own photos.

  8. Paste the URL.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  9. Tap Search by image.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  10. You’ll now see a page that displays your image and similar images on the web.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  11. Next to your photo at the top, you’ll see links to other sizes of the image in question.

  12. Tap All sizes to see every website that uses that image.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

How to Reverse Image Search Using Safari

You can do a reverse image search with Safari in much the same way as in Chrome. Here’s how to get to the Google reverse image search using Safari:

  1. Either copy the image or the URL of the image you’re investigating.
  2. Open the Safari app.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  3. Go to https://www.google.com.
  4. Tap on the word IMAGES at the top of the page.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  5. At the top left, next to the URL, tap on the Aa.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  6. Tap Request Desktop Website.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  7. On the next screen, tap the camera icon in the search bar.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  8. Here you have a choice to either paste the image URL or upload an image. For this article, we are pasting a URL. Please note that uploading an image is exactly the same process except that you choose an image from your own photos.
  9. Paste the URL and tap Search by image.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  10. You’ll now see a page that displays your image and similar images on the web.
  11. Next to your image at the top, you’ll see links to other sizes of the image in question. Tap All sizes to see every website that uses that image.

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At some point, you may wish to ask permission for the use of an image you find on the web or find out the full license agreement for an image. You also may want to find a free stock image for your blog. Here is how to do an advanced search and get that vital information. You can discover this info with either the Safari or Chrome app. For this article, we are going to use Safari, but the process is the same in either app.

  1. Open the Safari app.
  2. Go to https://www.google.com.
  3. Tap on the word Images at the top of the page.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  4. At the bottom of your screen, you’ll see the word Settings. Tap that.
  5. Select Advanced Search.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  6. On the next screen, you’ll see nearly every option you can think of; and if you scroll down, you’ll see a menu for usage rights.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

  7. Tap on usage rights, and you can choose which types of images you'd like to see.

    How to upload an image to google search on iphone

There you have it. Now you know how to search by image, how to reverse image search, and how to perform a Google images advanced search. Now you can spiff up your social media presence or blog knowing that you have done your due diligence and are using these images legally

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