Let’s focus on a fantastic feature in iOS 17’s Photos app – Photo Lookup. If you’ve ever wondered how to transform your collection of food photos into actual recipes, you’re in for a treat. I’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of using photo lookup to get a recipe from a photo of food. Get ready to unlock the potential of your culinary snapshots and turn them into delectable dishes right at your fingertips.
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The Lookup feature in Photos for iOS has always been really helpful at finding landmarks, or pieces of art, or details on animals – but with iOS 17 it’s got a few new tricks.
For example in this picture of some food there’s now a Lookup option at the bottom, and you might be thinking “well that’s great Jacob, it’s going to say it’s a lemon tart or a lemon cheesecake”, but actually it goes one step beyond that.
You see, if I tap onto that Lookup option not only do I get to see the name of that particular item of food I also get some suggested recipes as well.
Now there’s a quick disclaimer that it’s not 100% perfect – if you take a photo of a burger it’s not going to know exactly what sort of burger that is, but it’s a really good starting point.
For me I can actually find the recipe that I want and simply tap straight through and get the ingredients, the method, and I can start cooking if I wanted to – or I could just go back to the restaurant because this was delicious!
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