Visual Intelligence

Apple Intelligence is just the tip of the iceberg, as it seems Apple will create different ways to use this technology with your iPhone. A clear example is Visual Intelligence, a feature currently exclusive to the iPhone 16 models (although it’s coming to the iPhone 15 Pro in a future software update). It’s designed to make it easy to identify and get more information about the things around you.

You can use Visual Intelligence by pressing the Camera Control button on the side of your iPhone (or assign it to the Action Button on the iPhone 16e). Once you launch it, you only need to point your camera to something and use the buttons to ask your iPhone a question or search for something on the web.

Of course, Apple Intelligence can’t do this alone. Instead, your iPhone will use ChatGPT to answer your questions. Fortunately, this feature is accurate more often than not, and it’s extremely easy to use.

Granted, not everyone will use it daily, but it’s a nice feature that can help you in specific ways, like identifying objects or translating text, and in iOS 18.3, it can even add details of an event to your calendar and identify plants, animals, and insects.