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Take Control of Siri AI and Apple Intelligence
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Take Control of Siri AI and Apple Intelligence

by Glenn Fleishman, Joe Kissell
August 2026
Beginner
144 pages
3h 9m
English
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Use Visual Intelligence Features

Visual Intelligence’s remit has grown substantially since it originally let your iPhone describe what it saw via the Camera in iOS 18.2. Generally, Visual Intelligence lets you query what it “sees” in a screenshot or through the camera, or take action on what appears. Swipe your finger around something to prompt a visual search that can explain what you’ve highlighted.

This can give you the answer to or produce a result based on these sorts of inner monologue statements: “What’s that plant?” “Turn the information on that poster into a calendar event.” “What sculpture is that?” “Read me the text in this screenshot.”

Until now, you could invoke Visual Intelligence’s capabilities only when you made a screenshot ...

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