Google opened Pics, a Workspace design app built on Gemini and the Nano Banana image model, to general availability. Users can click an image inside Docs or Slides, select a single object or a piece of text, and describe the change they want. Pics can upscale images to 2K or 4K, translate text inside a picture, and open at pics.new. Drive integration is listed for the coming weeks, and access starts on Google AI Pro, Ultra and selected Workspace business plans.
Google opened Pics, a Workspace design app built on Gemini and the Nano Banana image model, to general availability. 9to5Google dates that opening as general availability after an I/O 2026 announcement and writes that Google Pics follows Google Vids. Clicking an image in Google Docs or Slides opens the editor as an overlay, and pics.new stands as a standalone Workspace application. Drive integration is listed for the coming weeks.[1], [2]
Google Pics lets a user tap a single object or a piece of text inside an image and describe the change, rather than rewriting a prompt for the whole picture. Nano Banana supplies object-based editing: select and edit individual objects, change, reformat or translate text inside a picture, crop for web, social, print and digital formats, upscale to 2K or 4K, run multiple edits at once and revert unwanted changes. Google is selling it against the inconsistent results businesses get from chatbots for marketing imagery; that sentence is the company's framing of the market it is entering.[1], [2]
Google Pics launches as a standalone Workspace application and as an integration inside Google Docs and Slides. 9to5Google adds that users can import files from a computer, Google Drive or Google Photos, and that teams can invite collaborators and share images by a link. Access starts on Google AI Pro and Ultra personal plans, Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus, and Google AI Pro for Education. Google writes that teams have struggled to create professional-grade images for marketing campaigns, customer presentations and product storytelling; that sentence is the company's framing.[1], [2]
