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Your Galaxy phone can now turn selfies into AI art with Nano Banana

The updated Now Brief app generates quick, stylized edits from your photos

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What’s happened? Samsung has added Google’s popular image-editing AI, Nano Banana, to the ‘Now Brief’ section on supported Galaxy phones inside the Personal Data Intelligence app (via SamMobile). The feature is currently rolling out to supported Galaxy devices that have access to Galaxy AI.

  • When you update the new version of the Personal Data Intelligence app via the Galaxy Store on supported Galaxy phones, you’ll find a fresh toggle for “Nano Banana image-creation” under Now Brief’s settings.
  • Once enabled, Now Brief will pick a random image (often a selfie) from your gallery at the end of the day, then offer ready-made prompts to transform it using Google’s Nano Banana AI.
  • The image is uploaded to Google’s servers, processed, and you can save, copy, or share the result.
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Nano Banana image creation under Now Brief’s settings SamMobile

This is important because: Samsung is boosting AI features in the Now Brief section, turning it into a creative playground.

  • Nano Banana supports text and image prompts, multi-image fusion, and subject consistency, so edits can keep the person in your selfie recognizable while changing background, style, or context, in a more powerful way than basic filters.
  • The feature bridges Samsung’s Galaxy AI and Google’s Gemini ecosystem, showing how device makers are teaming up rather than going solo in AI.
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Why should I care? You can try Galaxy AI on any phone using Samsung’s browser demo. But if you own a supported Galaxy phone and like playing with images, this change gives you a fresh, automatic way to remix your photos using top-tier AI.

OK, what’s next? To try AI image editing on your Samsung phone, update the Personal Data Intelligence app in Galaxy Store.

  • One note of caution: because the photo is uploaded to Google’s servers for processing, you’ll want to review permission settings and be aware of what data you’re sharing.
  • Expect style packs, new prompt templates, and expanded device support, as Samsung often rolls these out incrementally.
Manisha Priyadarshini
Manisha Priyadarshini
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Manisha Priyadarshini is a tech and entertainment writer with over nine years of editorial experience.
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