How to use your iPhone camera to identify plants and flowers

With iOS 15, you can easily identify any flower or plant using the Camera and Photos apps on your iPhone, without any third-party apps. Here's how.

As the weather gets better, people are heading outdoors to get in close contact with nature. Spring means all kinds of flowers and plants are on display outside, not even indoors.

As part of iOS 15, Apple is making some major changes to the Photos app, allowing it to recognize the content of photos. That's why you can search for "landscape", "sunset" or "crowd" in your photos and the app will return matching photos.

Maybe you saw a beautiful flower at your neighbor’s house and wanted to buy one, but you didn’t know what kind of flower it was. Or maybe you're taking a walk and aren't sure if what you just touched was poison oak. Or maybe you want to find care instructions for that fuzzy houseplant you were given.

Identifying Plants, Flowers and Trees

There are many ways to identify plants using Visual Look Up. With the Camera app open, simply pointing it at an object will cause Look Up to appear on the image. Likewise, if you capture a screenshot, it will appear in the editing window.

The easiest and most reliable method is to take photos.

• Open the Camera app on your iPhone
• Take a photo of any plant
• Go to the Camera Roll or Photos app
• Find the plant you just took a photo of image, or any saved plant photoHow to use visual find
• Swipe up or click the circled "i" icon in the toolbar
• Click to find

Sometimes the Photos app will display multiple results, letting you determine which one is most accurate. For example, when we tested on Christmas cactus, it was recommended to use a real Christmas cactus and a fake Christmas cactus.

These will all be linked to the Wikipedia article. Snippets can be found directly in the photos, or you can jump to the full web article to continue reading.

Fuchsia identified by Visual Look Up

Visual Look Up works best for common plants or plants with a limited variety, like the fuchsia above, but it works with many types. When we tried our strawberry plants—of which there are over 100 varieties—it suggested the all-purpose “wild strawberry.”

Examples of plants identified using Visual Look Up

As a reminder, while this is very convenient, do not rely on it to determine which plants or berries are edible.

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