How to Use Visual Lookup Object Identification on iPhone

This practical guide walks through how to use visual lookup object identification on iPhone, explains the main requirements, and highlights common issues that may appear along the way.

How Visual Lookup on iOS 15 works as follows:

First, take a photo of the subject you want to learn about. Or open the Photos app on your iPhone and navigate to the photo that contains the object you want to learn about.

Click the photo that contains the object you want to identify.

If you see in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen 2 small stars above the 'i' info icon, it means the app has identified something in the image. Please tap this 'i' icon.

Next, you'll see another small icon at the top of the photo that shows which objects have been identified through the Visual Lookup feature. You can click on it to open the search results.

You should now see some results returned from Siri Knowledge related to the object. Click the result to display more information and other similar images.

Accomplished! With just a few simple steps, you have gained new knowledge about everything around you. Of course, not every object Visual Lookup can identify, but this feature will improve over time.

In addition, Keep in mind that the Visual Lookup feature was developed by Apple on the iOS 15 platform, and is only available on iPhone devices using the A12 Bionic processor chip or higher.