Google’s new AI ‘Simplify’ tool for iOS makes complex text easy to read: Here’s how the feature works

Google has rolled out a new ‘Simplify’ feature for its iOS app users. The company claims that the feature users artificial intelligence to help users better understand a difficult or complex text. The new Simplify feature aims to make the reading mode on mobile devices more accessible. The feature is designed to male the web-pages more concise and easier to understand. “When you're trying to learn about something new on the web, you might come across content that uses jargon or technical concepts you're not familiar with. Simplify, a new feature in the Google app on iOS, uses AI to make dense text on the web easier to understand — without leaving a web page,” said Google.To use Simplify, select any complex text on a web page you’re visiting in the Google app. Tap the “Simplify” icon that appears, and you’ll see a new, simpler version of the text, helping you quickly understand a new concept so you can keep reading.“Simplify features a novel prompt refinement approach developed by Google Research, and uses Gemini to make complicated text more digestible — without losing key details,” added Google.The Simplify feature users Google's advanced AI models to identify key information and reformat text in a user-friendly manner. Simplify also enable users understand the main points of text quickly. The feature will become useful in dealing with information overload or when reading on the go.Google's research blog provides an example of how this feature could work. For instance, you might encounter a passage that reads: “The complex pathology of this condition involves emphysematous destruction of lung parenchyma, diffuse interstitial fibrosis, changes in the composition of lung immune cells, increased production of immunomodulatory factors, and the prominent remodeling of pulmonary vasculature.”The simplified text would then read: This complex condition involves damage to the lung tissue from emphysema, a disease that damages the air sacs in the lungs, and widespread scarring of the lung tissue, called fibrosis. The immune cells in the lungs change, and the body makes more immunomodulatory factors, substances that control the immune system. The blood vessels in the lungs also change a lot.”