Apple has made the smallest update to Visual Intelligence in iOS 26, and yet the impact of being able to use it on any image is huge, and at least doubles the usefulness of this one feature.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Use your iPhone’s camera to identify objects and answer questions. Use your iPhone’s camera to identify objects ...

I’ve been exploring the “visual intelligence” aspect of Apple Intelligence in iOS 26 on my iPhone 17 lately, and while it’s not game-changing, it is occasionally useful and can be faster than using a ...

I know, it’s just a developer beta, and if anyone from Apple asks then my Visual Intelligence first impressions are purely offered in the context of its future potential. But I have to say that trying ...

Apple’s new Visual Intelligence feature can quickly pull up information about things you see in the world, like a menu at a coffee shop. As I walked past a Japanese tea shop in New York’s Bowery ...

I have been using Apple’s new Visual Intelligence feature since the moment iOS 18.2 Developer Beta released a few weeks back. At first, I thought it would be one of those features that would just be ...

Visual Intelligence is getting a big upgrade in iOS 27. It's now easier to find than it was before, and there are new ‌Visual Intelligence‌ capabilities. Apple also expanded it to the iPad and the Mac ...

iOS 26 introduces a new Visual Intelligence feature set, reshaping the way you interact with screenshots. By using advanced recognition technologies, this update enables you to extract actionable ...

Using your iPhone camera to look up stuff is called Visual Intelligence. Apple Visual Intelligence is an AI-powered feature that lets your iPhone understand what its camera sees. Point the camera at ...