iOS 17 Photos Features: Pet Recognition, Recipe Identification, One-Tap Crop and More

[MacRumors]

With the iOS 17 Photos and Camera apps, Apple added several features that make the apps more pleasant to use. Visual Look Up can recognize more than ever, including various mystery symbols you see in your daily life, plus the Photos app will detect your pets and put them in their own album.

This guide highlights all of the new iOS 17 Photos and Camera app features.

Pet Recognition

In addition to people, the Photos app can recognize specific animals so you can have your pets automatically sorted into albums. Accordingly, the People album has been renamed the "People & Pets" album.

The pet recognition feature works on cats and dogs, and Apple says that people recognition has also improved.

Visual Look Up

Apple gave Visual Look Up some major updates. For a recap, Visual Look Up is the name of the feature that lets you get more information about the subject of a photo when you tap on the information button in the Photos app.

For images of food, the iPhone will identify what's in the photo and present recipes sourced from the web. A whole range of symbols can now be recognized, from street signs to dashboard icons to the laundry instructions you see on clothing tags. If you take a picture of one of these symbols and then tap for info, the iPhone will be able to tell you what it means.

You can also use the long press on an image gesture to pull the subject from the background of an image to look up what it is, if it is compatible with Visual Look Up.

Finally, Visual Look Up can be used in videos. You can pause a video on any frame and tap on the info button to look up what's in the video.

One-Tap Crop

When you zoom into an image in the Photos app, you can tap on the "Crop" button in the upper right corner to crop into the zoom without having to open up the photo editing interface.

Photos Interface Changes

In the photo editing interface, the Cancel and Done buttons have been moved to the top of the display, and all of the tool icons have text descriptions to explain what they do.

iOS 16 on left, iOS 17 on right​

Camera Leveling

A new level option in iOS 17 adds a horizontal line to the Camera app so you can make sure that landscape shots are lined up and level before capturing an image.

• How to Straighten Your Shooting Angle With the New Camera Level Feature

QR Code Updates

While the iPhone's Camera app has been able to read QR codes since iOS 11, iOS 17 fixes an interface that has been irritating for quite some time. Rather than the link for a QR code popping up in the middle of the display, it now shows up at the bottom of the screen so it's easier to tap.

Cinematic Mode

Apple added a Cinematic API for third-party apps, which will allow photo and video apps to incorporate Cinematic mode video playback and editing.

Animated Stickers

With the remove subject from background tool, you can turn any Live Photo into an animated sticker that can be used in Messages and other apps.

Just long press on the subject in a photo and then choose the "Add Sticker" option. From there, you can add effects like a white sticker outline, a "puffy" sticker effect, glitter, and more.

This feature also works with any photo if you just want a still image.

Screenshot Updates

If you take a screenshot in iOS 17, you'll see a Save to Photos option that saves the full page of the screenshot as an image. Previously, the feature for capturing a full page s... Click here to read rest of article

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[Apple Fan 2008]

Custom stickers are my favorite new feature.

 

[BenGoren]

What I want isn’t just a one-axis level, but two- or even three-axis. This is especially important for architecture; you could have the horizon level, but still be left with “keystone” distortion. (Traditionally, you’d use a view camera or a “tilt / shift” lens on an SLR, but if you have enough pixels, cropping is optically equivalent.)

And with three-axis, you could (for example) take a photo of a painting hanging on the wall perfectly square to the wall, no distortions whatsoever.

For bonus points … offer a mode where you only have to get “close enough,” and the phone uses the gyroscope information (and maybe a bit of AI) to digitally finish the correction. Essentially, a digital gyro-stabilized gimbal locked to square and level. (Yes, with some cropping — not avoidable, and we’ve got megapixels to spare.)

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[klasma]

This is a nitpick, but “adjust” isn’t much of an explanation.

 

[lazyrighteye]

For bonus points … offer a mode where you only have to get “close enough,” and the phone uses the gyroscope information (and maybe a bit of AI) to digitally finish the correction. Essentially, a digital gyro-stabilized gimbal locked to square and level. (Yes, with some cropping — not avoidable, and we’ve got megapixels to spare.)

This seems not only doable but a feature I, and likely others, would dig. Approved! 🤪

 

[Populus]

Lovely cats, Juli.

 

[lazyrighteye]

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This is a nitpick, but “adjust” isn’t much of an explanation.

Fair. Thought it is an improvement over the previous audio-volume-knob-only icon. 😜

 

[deesedani]

I wish they would sort out pictures in recent, so here is my issue/problem I move pictures from recent to Albums so I can organise myself, the problem is they are still in recent, surely recent should ONLY have photos that are NOT in an album, this would be a dream feature for me. I don’t know what is in albums now and what isn’t, I don’t have a huge amount of photos only about 5,000 but like to sort myself out. Even if the picture had a symbol like a STAR to say it’s in an album that would atleast help the matter, come on Apple this is such an easy and simple fix, has no one at the office thought of this fix

 

[jayducharme]

This is an example of one of the places where Apple is utilizing AI, not for the sake of AI but to do something actually useful with it.

 

[Neil Harrison]

Pet recognition is the best thing to come to iOS

 

[jz0309]

I will put pet ecognition to its test on my 2 cats - they're both black ... will report here after release

 

[allenvanhellen]

1) So we still need a second iPhone or app to read QR codes from photos? Why in the world doesn't Apple just make the recognition experience the same between Camera and Photos?!

2) Is there no level available when the camera is in portrait orientation? Why not?!

3) All I really want is the return of the HDR switch (and I guess one for sharpening now too).

 

[211]

Does Visual Lookup work for anyone? It doesn’t work for any of the photos I have taken

 

[fatTribble]

Some really nice improvements!
Text descriptions on the editing icons will really help.
Saving full page screenshots as a jpg will be really useful.
Was hoping they’d talk about the photo album widget.

The more I read about iOS 17, the more excited I get. 🤓

 

[Waterndirt]

Sure would be nice to have a feature where we could wirelessly mirror our camera role on our phone to what’s on our Mac, ie Photo Stream.

All this energy in making cat sticker junk.

 

[svish]

Good updates. QR code scanning should be easier now!

 

[midkay]

I will put pet ecognition to its test on my 2 cats - they're both black ... will report here after release

I have pics from several very similar-looking cats in my library and it distinguished them flawlessly! I'm very impressed.

1) So we still need a second iPhone or app to read QR codes from photos? Why in the world doesn't Apple just make the recognition experience the same between Camera and Photos?!

2) Is there no level available when the camera is in portrait orientation? Why not?!

3) All I really want is the return of the HDR switch (and I guess one for sharpening now too).

1) No, you just go to the QR code image in your Photos app, and tap the icon in the bottom-right to scan the code.

2) Not sure where you got that idea - it works in both landscape and portrait modes.

 

[YooperJerome]

Lot of good updates to both apps!

 

[jimbobb24]

Sure would be nice to have a feature where we could wirelessly mirror our camera role on our phone to what’s on our Mac, ie Photo Stream.

All this energy in making cat sticker junk.

I have my camera roll wirelessly mirrored on my Mac, phone, and iPad right now. iCloud Photos…your going to love it.

 

[Shifts]

How QR codes were handled up until now has annoyed me to no end. This is a very much welcome change. No more finger hunting needed to click that appearing link.

 

[Leon Ze Professional]

I don't know how others feel? Is it just me that feels like the software this year is more intriguing than maybe what the hardware will be?

 

[Waterndirt]

I have my camera roll wirelessly mirrored on my Mac, phone, and iPad right now. iCloud Photos…your going to love it.

I get it… I just don’t see the need to have hundreds of gigs of photos / videos in the cloud. Complete unnecessary in my opinion. Photo stream worked perfect.

 

[Tevosn]

I just want to be able to control white balance.

 

[BB1970]

We need audio meters in the camera app !

 

[WildSelkie]

I wish they would sort out pictures in recent, so here is my issue/problem I move pictures from recent to Albums so I can organise myself, the problem is they are still in recent, surely recent should ONLY have photos that are NOT in an album, this would be a dream feature for me. I don’t know what is in albums now and what isn’t, I don’t have a huge amount of photos only about 5,000 but like to sort myself out. Even if the picture had a symbol like a STAR to say it’s in an album that would atleast help the matter, come on Apple this is such an easy and simple fix, has no one at the office thought of this fix

do you just use a phone/tablet or do you have a mac as well? You can setup a smart album in photos on the mac to show pictures not in an alum <this does not work on iOS or iPadOS>