Apple revealed at its WWDC 2025 occasion that it’s bringing Visible Intelligence, its AI-powered picture evaluation tech, to the iPhone display in iOS 26.
Visible Intelligence will now make it simpler and quicker to do extra with the content material in your iPhone, Apple says, and it really works mechanically with any app. For instance, should you open a social media app and see a grey jacket, you need to use Visible Intelligence — which will be accessed by urgent the identical button you utilize to take a screenshot — to do a picture seek for the jacket in Google Search and different apps you utilize often.
Visible Intelligence on the iPhone’s display affords different shortcut choices, like rapidly including an occasion to your calendar, primarily based on context. It will possibly extract the date, time, and site and pre-populate them in a calendar entry. There’s additionally an choice to add a screenshot to ChatGPT for evaluation and extra info.
Apple’s head of software program engineering, Craig Federighi, stated that builders can combine Apple Intelligence into their apps.
“For builders, you need to use App Intents to combine search capabilities out of your apps into this expertise,” Federighi stated onstage at WWDC. “We’re additionally making it attainable so that you can search visually throughout your most-used apps utilizing Visible Intelligence with the iPhone digital camera.”