If you have iOS 16, you can do it

The iPhone’s ability to distinguish text, even handwriting, is truly amazing. But these possibilities don’t stop with text analysis alone: ​​your iPhone can do it natively and without third-party applications recognize plants, monuments just photograph them. That you don’t know how to distinguish a petunia from a chrysanthemum? Does this function solve it? Do you doubt between the breed of a specific pet? You will no longer have this problem.

A recognition that only requires a photo

Identifying plants with iPhone has never been so fun and easy. It is true that there have been several for years Applications that offer us object recognition our environment pretty much. However, the quality of the information tends to vary, without losing sight of the fact that some of these apps require paying a subscription.

With iOS 15, Apple introduced the ability to recognize content directly from the Photos app. iOS 16 has taken this feature even further thanks to the next-gen Neural Engine. Visual Lookup, visual search in Spanish, is ideal to be able to do it Take a picture of a flower and know what kind it is, For example. A function that also works with any photo, no matter how old, that we have in the photo library.

The steps to follow to get Information from real world elements They’re pretty simple, especially these ones:

1. We open the app ‘camera‘ on our iPhone.
2. We photograph the object that interests us.
3. We touch the photo we just took in the lower left part.
4. We played the “Yo” from the lower part when a small star appears on it.
5. We touch the center of the image we want to recognize.

We will automatically see what is shown to us under the title Siri informationseveral Wikipedia entries with information about the element that we photographed. Immediately below are Similar web imageswhich can also be used to refine the results or find comparative information about specific elements on the web.

In this case, as we can see in the screenshots, we photographed some flowers to find out their names. However, this system works with much more. We can find general knowledge results from Siri when photographing paintings, famous photos or paintings, Information about books, about important monuments and also about breeds of dogs and cats.

The accuracy of the results always It varies depending on what we are photographing, as well as the clarity, sharpness, and detail the image captures from the object itself. However, the results are surprising. Results, as we said before, we know if they are available thanks to the little star next to the “i” button that gives access to the image information.

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