How to use Visual Intelligence on the iPhone

One of the Apple Intelligence features that hasn’t been delayed is Visual Intelligence, which uses your iPhone’s camera to identify and answer questions on whatever’s around you in the world. It lets you snap a pizza restaurant storefront and find out its opening hours, for example, or point your camera at a plant and find out what it’s called and how to care for it. If you’ve used Google Lens, you’ll get the idea. This isn’t available to everyone, though. You have to be using iOS 18.2 on the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, or iPhone 16 Pro Max; iOS 18.3 on the iPhone 16E; or iOS 18.4 on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. You’ll also need to have Apple Intelligence turned on, via Apple Intelligence & Siri in Settings. How to launch Visual Intelligence Left: You can get Visual Intelligence to work with the Action Button. Right: If there’s a match, it’ll appear at the top of the screen. Images: Apple If you have an iPhone 16 with a Camera Control button on the right- ... Read full article.