
This platform primarily serves as a hub for sharing captivating images and engaging videos, and its exceptional range of features enhances the overall user experience. There does not appear to be a way to completely disable the "Search image with Google Lens" option, so you will be stuck seeing this in your context menu.ĭid this guide help you or did you find an alternative way? Let us know in the comments.Instagram is undoubtedly one of the most widely used social media platforms in the world, with an impressive user base of over one billion people. In addition, changing the options above means that you will be uploading the image to the search engine(s) you chose, just like how the old Search Google for image option used to work.
It's important to note that if you do the above and have more than one search engine ticked, the above option will open a new tab for each search result on every search engine that is selected.
Lastly, change "Search all engines" to "From context menu". On the right change the Context menu "Search mode" option to "Select image". On the left untick all but one search engine to use for image searches. However, by default, the extension searches by URL (top left image), so if you attempt to search an image that is on a private website that requires login, it will return the error message "The URL doesn't refer to an image or the image is not publicly accessible.", so we have to change some options in the extension to make it work like Google reverse image search does. You will once again have the option to search for the image in your context menu. The publisher has disclosed "that it will not collect or use your data" which is a nice thing to know, Armin has also been commenting on reddit helping people to use the extension and its options, but for the most part, you're sorted. Go to the Chrome web store and install Search by image by Armin Sebastian. This is where we'll have to rely on a third party extension to restore one-click reverse image searching again. Previously, one could restore reverse image search by disabling the Lens feature by heading to chrome://flags, and setting #enable-lens-region-search to disabled but although the flag is still present, setting it to disabled does nothing, leading people to believe that the flag was left behind by accident when the switch was flipped to roll out the new Lens search option for everyone, presumably from Chrome v99, since it only started showing up for me this morning.