Amazon app now takes you shopping straight from the iPhone’s lock screen
Amazon has introduced new visual search features for its app, including a widget for iPhone users. This widget allows users to access the camera directly from the lock screen to identify products quickly. The aim is to streamline the shopping experience by reducing the number of steps needed to find items.
- ▪Amazon has rolled out six new visual search features for its app.
- ▪The Amazon Lens widget allows iPhone users to access a camera shortcut from the lock screen.
- ▪Users can point their camera at objects to find products without unlocking their phones.
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Opening the Amazon app, tapping the search bar, and finding a product by text or image search: this is how most of us have been using it. However, Amazon thinks that’s too many steps. The company has rolled out six new visual search features, one of them being the Amazon Lens widget for iPhone. It puts a camera shortcut directly on your iPhone’s lock screen, so you can point it at anything around you and the app finds it before you’ve unlocked the phone. Shikhar Mehrotra / Digital Trends How to add the Amazon Lens widget? Adding the widget is quite straightforward. When unlocked, press and hold the lock screen, and then tap on the Customize button at the bottom.
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