The famous function surrounds to find should soon accommodate a new option. Called Live Translate, it will translate text in motion, as in GIFs or videos.
“Surround to seek” has imposed itself as one of the flagship functions when launching Samsung Premium Galaxy S24 smartphones. For those who do not know it, it allows you to surround an area of the screen in order to launch a Google search concerning it. It is a quick and practical way to search by taking into account everything that is present on the screen, which makes research more relevant. Google has since gradually extended this option to its Pixel smartphones, then to other brands and models of smartphones.
In order to reach an ever wider audience, Google is developing a new function for its tool, as discovered by the Android Authority teams who have managed to activate its test version. If, initially “surrounding to seek” makes it possible to translate a static text, this improvement, called “Live Translate”, ie “Live translation” in French, will also allow the translation of text in motion, for example the text displayed by a video, a web or a GIF.
Surround to find: a new live translation function
This function is still in development, it is therefore imperfect, but it still gives a good overview of the potential of the function. This also means that, when it is officially released, the final rendering may be different. To use it, press the application drawer to surround to search and select Live Translate. A pop-up then appears to find out if the user wants to save the whole screen of the smartphone or only certain applications. The function activates then, with a new animation and a rainbow gradient on the edges of the screen.
A floating pill, which can be moved on the screen or retracted on the side, makes it possible to modify the language in which translate. It also offers a cropping function, which probably translates the text of a part of the screen only, but it does not work at the moment. Finally, there is a button to stop the translation live and return to the classic interface to surround to search.
To find out if your smartphone supports the surround function to find, you can refer to the Android Authority list, which lists all compatible Android mobiles, and that we will put here:
Google Pixel
- Pixel 6
- Pixel 6 Pro
- Pixel 6a
- Pixel 7
- Pixel 7 Pro
- Pixel 7a
- Pixel 8
- Pixel 8 Pro
- Pixel 8a
- Pixel 9
- Pixel 9 Pro
- Pixel 9 Pro XL
- Pixel 9 Pro Fold
- Pixel Fold
- Pixel Tablet
Nothing
- Nothing Phone (2)
- Nothing Phone (2a)
- Nothing (2a) Plus
- Nothing (3a)
- Nothing (3a) Pro
OnePlus
Honor
- Honor 200
- Honor 200 Pro
- Honor Magic V3
Lenovo
Motorola
- Motorola Edge 50 Ultra
- Motorola Razr 50
Samsung
- Galaxy A04
- Galaxy A05s
- Galaxy A06
- Galaxy A13
- Galaxy A14 5G
- Galaxy A23
- Galaxy A23 5G
- Galaxy A34 5G
- Galaxy A35 5G
- Galaxy A52
- Galaxy A52 5G
- Galaxy A52s 5G
- Galaxy A54 5G
- Galaxy A55 5G
- Galaxy A72
- Galaxy A73 5G
- Galaxy Buddy 2
- Galaxy M35 5G
- Galaxy Jump 3
- Galaxy Quantum 2
- Galaxy S21
- Galaxy S21+
- Galaxy S21 Ultra
- Galaxy S21 FE
- Galaxy S22
- Galaxy S22+
- Galaxy S22 Ultra
- Galaxy S23
- Galaxy S23+
- Galaxy S23 Ultra
- Galaxy S23 FE
- Galaxy S24
- Galaxy S24+
- Galaxy S24 Ultra
- Galaxy S24 FE
- Gax Tab A7 Life
- Galaxy Tab A8
- Galaxy Tab A9
- Galaxy Tab A9+
- Galaxy Tab A9+ 5G
- Galaxy Tab Active 4 Pro 5G
- Galaxy Tab Active 5
- Galaxy Tab Active 5 5G
- Galaxy Tab S6 Lite
- Galaxy Tab S7 FE
- Galaxy Tab S7 FE 5G
- Galaxy Tab S8
- Galaxy Tab S8 5G
- Galaxy Tab S8+
- Galaxy Tab S8+ 5G
- Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra
- Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra 5G
- Galaxy Tab S9
- Galaxy Tab S9 5G
- Galaxy Tab S9+
- Galaxy Tab S9+ 5G
- Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra
- Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra 5G
- Galaxy Tab S9 FE
- Galaxy Tab S9 FE 5G
- Galaxy Tab S9 FE+
- Galaxy Tab S9 FE+ 5G
- Galaxy Tab S10
- Galaxy Tab S10+
- Galaxy Tab S10+ 5G
- Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra
- Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra 5G
- Galaxy XCover 6 Pro
- Galaxy Z Flip 3
- Galaxy Z Flip 4
- Galaxy Z Flip 5
- Galaxy Z Flip 6
- Galaxy Z Fold 3
- Galaxy Z Fold 4
- Galaxy Z Fold 5
- Galaxy Z Fold 6
- W23
- W23 Flip
Tecno
- Tecno Phantom V Flip 2 5G
- Tecno Phantom V Fold 2 5G
Xiaomi
- Xiaomi 14T
- Xiaomi 14T Pro
- Xiaomi MIX Flip
Compatible Android mobiles are therefore more than a hundred, and this is only the beginning. Xiaomi and Honor are starting to painted the game. Google’s goal is to reach the 200 million smartphones taken care of by the end of 2024.
