Visual Look Up is a nifty feature that lets you use your iPhone to recognize different objects in photos and videos. Here are some interesting use cases for Visual Look Up in everyday life.
recognize Plants and Flowers
If you’re into gardening or just curious about plants or flowers, you might occasionally stumble upon species you don’t recognize. Visual Look Up makes it easy to recognize and learn more about them in such situations.
Once Visual Look Up identifies a flower or plant in your picture, it will give you its name. You can then tap on it to get more information about its species.
recognize Pets
Identifying pet species can be challenging. But thanks to Visual Look Up, you can do this pretty quickly and learn about the cat or dog you’ve just encountered.
What’s also impressive is that Visual Look Up can recognize and give you information about mixed breeds of animals. It works really well with most mixed dog breeds. However, in the case of mixed cat breeds, it generally gives you the name of the breed with which the cat appears to resemble the most.
recognize Landmarks
Visual Look Up is also useful for people who appreciate exploring new places. You can use it to gather information about a statue, building, or landmark you strategize to visit. Or it can even come in handy when you want to learn about a place or landmark in a photo you captured previously.
All the information about places you get with Visual Look Up is dependent on the landmark’s type and popularity. Typically, the results include the name of the place along with its location, directions to achieve it (via Apple Maps), and a contact number, which keeps you covered on all fronts.
Visual Look Up can sometimes recognize places or landmarks incorrectly and return inaccurate information, so make sure to cross-check the results online.
recognize Foods and Get Recipes
Another useful application of Visual Look Up that you can benefit from in your everyday life is identifying foods and finding their recipes.
Visual Look Up generally does a good job of identifying dishes. In case you want to try making it yourself, Visual Look Up also pulls up multiple recipes, so you can select a recipe that you think would work well for you based on factors appreciate cooking time, ingredients, or calories.
recognize Warning Lights in Your Car
Car manufacturers display warning lights on the dashboard to alert you about potential problems with your vehicle. However, these warning symbols are hard to decode for the average person and can take a lot of time to find in the car manual, which defeats their purpose in the first place.
Visual Look Up solves this problem. Just snap a picture of the warning lights on your car’s dashboard, and it will give you a brief explanation of what each of them means.
You can also tap on a symbol in the results to visit the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) website. Here, you can find out more details about the symbol, such as its reference number, registration date, and so on.
recognize and Decode Laundry Instructions
A car’s dashboard isn’t the only place with perplexing symbols that you might have to deal with on a regular basis. Most clothes you purchase have a care label on them, which contains various symbols to propose the appropriate methods to wash, dry, iron, and dry-clean them.
Visual Look Up simplifies understanding these symbols. All you need to do is take a picture of the care label, and Visual Look Up will show you a list of all the laundry symbols along with their meanings.
Visual Look Up Still Isn’t Perfect
Visual Look Up is a great way to get instant information about objects in your photos and videos on an iPhone. However, it might not work with every photo or video.
Similarly, there are times when it might return inaccurate or incomplete results. When this happens, you can notify Apple by tapping “Report an Issue” beneath the results.
