Check Food Nutrition with Siri Camera Mode on iPhone
About This QuickTip
Ever wondered how healthy that snack really is? The new Siri mode in the Camera app in iOS 27 can check the nutrition of your food, whether it's on your plate, on a supermarket shelf or in a photo you've already taken. I'll show you how to get a quick report-card-style breakdown on your iPhone, and how to do the same from the Photos app. Just note it needs an iPhone 15 Pro or later with Apple Intelligence.
Transcript
One of the new Siri AI features on the iPhone will help you find nutritional information about the food that you’re eating. Or perhaps, if you’re shopping, it will help you make some informed decisions about what food you might like to buy. It’s not going to go as far as a calorie tracking app, but it is going to give you that initial indication of perhaps what it is you’re putting into your body. Let me show you how it works.
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Okay, to use this feature, I’m going to go into the Camera app on my iPhone, and I’m going to swipe sideways to get on to Siri mode. Now, you can see on the camera here, I’ve actually got ice cream in front of me, and I’ve got a sneaking suspicion it’s not particularly nutritious, but we can test that now using Siri AI.
When it detects some sort of food in front of the camera, you’ll see this little pop-up at the bottom saying Nutrition. When you tap on there, you’re going to get a kind of report-card-style interface, and Siri AI will work out the contents of what’s in front of the camera and give you some information about it. Is this processed? Is it refined? Is it natural? All of those sorts of things. And you’ll get these little bars that light up.
As you might expect, there’s not a lot of good stuff in this ice cream, but I will confirm that it tasted absolutely delicious. So, I guess it’s a treat. I don’t mind too much.
But what if you’ve got a photograph of your food? What if you’re not there in front of it in the moment? Well, if we open up a photo of this roast dinner, for example, Siri intelligence will also work in here as well. I’m going to tap on the little “i” at the bottom, and then I can press on Nutrition on the pop-over screen.
Now, I get the exact same screen that I had before, but I’m not in the Camera app, I’m in the Photos app. And you’ll be glad to know the roast dinner was a little bit healthier than my ice cream was, and they were both equally tasty.
So, give it a try, and let me know what you think in the comments. And then don’t forget to check out this QuickTip next.
Technical details: This QuickTip was recorded on an iPhone 17 Pro Max running iOS 27 in November 2026.
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