How the crap do you save images from google now!?!?!?

[B. Diddy]

I learned this solution from RocThrower: https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=884746&p=6324010&viewfull=1#post6324010. In order for the Google app to save images to the user-accessible /Download directory, the Storage permission for the Google app has to be turned on (and it's off by default, for some unknown reason). If the permission is off, then the image gets saved to a protected system directory called /document, which is only accessible by the Google app itself.