What does the “P” with an exclamation point icon on your car dashboard mean? And the one that looks like a faucet with steam lines coming out of the top? There are hundreds of “chivatos,” lights that inform us of problems with our vehicle, just as there is a huge code file to know how to wash clothes. The hardest part is knowing what they mean, because no one memorizes them.. However, almost all current iPhones have a feature to help and iOS 17 and the new iOS 18 support this feature.
From identifying washing instructions to knowing how to care for plants
There are times when we would like to know more about a specific photo. Better yet, Apple’s “Photos” application already has this tool. The function in question is called internationally “Visual search”. This visual search engine from Apple It can tell what type of photo you took and analyzes the contextual information to provide additional information. For example, if you don’t recognize a road sign and take a photo of it, you’ll see that the visual identifier tells you what it means.
In fact, you can also check more data by asking Siri for additional information, by pressing ‘Show more‘. We did the test with a garment and it even tells us what type of garment it is, if it has been laundered w ith non-chlorinated agents and if it can be bleached or not.
The process for your iPhone to recognize these icons is always the same:
- Open the iPhone camera, tap the icon or group of icons, and take the photo.
- Now go to your photo gallery or simply tap on your last photo in the camera roll in the bottom right corner, which will open the camera roll.
- Press the ‘I‘information or data recognition icon that you will see starting from iOS 17.5, as shown in the image above.
- All you have to do is press the section ‘To consult” and contextual information will be displayed about this information, whether it is the lights on the car dashboard or washing instructions according to the codes and icons present on the clothes.
This tool also performs many other functions, such as recognizing plants or even who owns a painting, if you are taking photos in a museum and the information about the author and the work in question is not displayed. It’s one of those functions that we rarely use or that many ignore but which complements the ‘Camera’ application with a lot of really useful data and which They can make the difference between ruining clothes from a bad wash or making them perfect.
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