How can I get google lens not to pop up at me in Safari?
MacBook Air, macOS 14.2
Okay, I see what you mean. I realized that I don't generally click and drag images. I control-click and then select what I want to do from the menu that appears. So, that's one option. Another would be to use a different search engine. DuckDuckGo gets high marks, especially for privacy.
Given that the only way I'm aware of that you can use Google Lens in Safari is by pasting a link into Google's image search, I don't understand how it could "pop up" at you. Can you provide more details? What are you doing when this happens? Exactly what happens?
Thanks for responding! Here’s when it happens: when you have searched for images (on a Mac, using Safari, having clicked “Images” after searching for a photo (example: cheering)). Google Lens pops up if you click any photo that’s shown up in the search and (here’s when Google Lens pops up:) drag it (the photo) to your desktop or application (for instance, Keynote). As soon as you start dragging your clicked image, Google Lens pops up and doesn’t go away until you manually click the “x” in the Google Lens pop up in Safari (after you’ve dropped the photo in your application or onto your desktop). This happens every time you drag and drop an image from the google search of images to anything that’s not the google lens box.
I'll have to double-check on that when I get home to my Mac. I've never had that happen.
Thank you.
OK. Thank you. I’ll switch search engines for my image searches. Thanks for checking this out!
atobteam1 wrote:
OK. Thank you. I’ll switch search engines for my image searches. Thanks for checking this out!
Sorry I didn't have a better answer. But, hey, I learned more about Google Lens!
Google Lens Off in Safari
