Our iPhone’s ability to distinguish text, even handwritten text, is truly amazing. But the ability of our iPhone to surprise us goes further when, natively, without third-party applications, it can recognize plants, landmarks or breeds of certain pets simply by taking pictures of them.
Recognition that only requires a photo
It is true that over the years there have been several applications that offer us object recognition of our environment with sufficient precision. However, the quality of the information tends to vary, bearing in mind that several of these applications require the payment of a subscription.
With iOS 15, Apple introduced the ability to recognize content directly from the Photos app. Visual Lookup, Visual Search in Spanish, is ideal to be able to take a picture of a flower and find out what species it is, for example. A feature that also works with any photo, regardless of age, that we have in the photo library.
Steps to get information about real world objects They are pretty straightforward, especially these:
- We open the application Camera on our iPhone.
- We photograph the object that interests us.
- We touch the photo we just took at the bottom left.
- We touch the “i” at the bottom whenever a little star appears on it.
- We touch the center of the image that we want to recognize.
Automatically we will see that it appears to us, under the title Siri Informationmany Wikipedia entries containing information about the element that we photographed. Immediately below are Similar web imageswhich can also be used to finish narrowing down results or, by comparison, to find information on the web about specific items.
As we can see in the captures, in this case we photographed flowers to know their name. This system, however, works with much more. We can find general knowledge results from Siri if we photograph pictures, famous photos or paintings, information on books, on important monuments and also on the breed of dogs and cats.
Accuracy of results always This will vary depending on what we are photographing, as well as the clarity, focus, and detail the image picks up from the object itself. However, the results are surprising. Results, as we have already said, that we will know if they are available thanks to the little star next to the “i” button that gives us access to the image information.
