Amazon’s latest visual search update brings Lens Live and Circle to Search feature to your app
Amazon has introduced a significant update to its shopping app, enhancing its visual search capabilities. The new features include real-time AI-generated product images that appear as users type in the search bar. Additionally, Amazon Lens is now available on iPhone lock screens, further improving the shopping experience.
- ▪Amazon has rolled out a major visual search update for its shopping app.
- ▪The search bar now generates AI product images in real time as users type.
- ▪Amazon Lens is now accessible on iPhone lock screens.
Digital Trends files mainly under tech. We currently carry 613 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Digital Trends |
| Canonical URL | https://www.digitaltrends.com/phones/amazons-latest-visual-search-update-brings-circle-to-search-and-product-videos-to-your-app/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:44:54 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T19:51:05.126Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T19:51:05.126Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Z1jh7JpKnUjd |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Amazon just rolled out its most significant visual search update with a bunch of new features across its shopping app, covering everything from how you search to how you browse results. Every new visual search feature Amazon just added to its shopping app Amazon The search bar on Amazon app now generates AI product images in real time as you type, giving you a visual shorthand for products you cannot quite describe in words. Recommended Videos (function(){let containerEl=document.getElementById('dt-cnx-container-6a20858b32670');const deletePlayer=()=>{if(containerEl){containerEl.remove();containerEl=null}};if(!window.DT_RELATED_PLAYER_PROVIDER){deletePlayer();return} const iasAnId=decodeURIComponent('927851');if(!window.dtCNXReady){const loadIAS=()=>{return new Promise((resolve)=>{const…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Digital Trends.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Digital Trends
