iOS 27 Camera App to Get 'Siri' Mode With Nutrition Label Scanning

[MacRumors]

Apple is planning to integrate Apple Intelligence and Siri into more of its apps in iOS 27, including the Camera app, reports Bloomberg. The iOS 27 Camera app will have a dedicated Siri mode that will be available alongside the existing Photo, Video, Portrait, and Panorama modes. When in Siri mode, the existing Camera app shutter button will feature the Apple Intelligence logo, letting users know the Siri features are available.

Siri mode will incorporate Visual Intelligence, making the feature more accessible. Right now, Visual Intelligence is activated by long pressing the Camera Control button, and it is a gesture that many people may not even be aware of.

In addition to being relocated to the Camera app with Siri branding, Visual Intelligence is also being updated with new features. It will be able to scan a nutrition label on food items to log the dietary information, plus users will be able to use it to add contact details for someone directly to the Contacts app.

MacRumors first discovered signs of the Visual Intelligence features in Apple code in mid-April. Here's a bit more on what we found:

• Nutrition - Users will be able to scan nutrition labels on food packaging for calorie and macronutrient tracking using the Health app.
• Contacts - Visual Intelligence will let users scan phone numbers and addresses on business cards and other print media, adding the information to the Contacts app.
• Wallet - In the Wallet app, Visual Intelligence will capture information from physical event tickets and membership cards, generating digital versions.

Existing Visual Intelligence features will continue to be available, and it will be able to identify objects like plants and animals, add events to the Calendar app, and send visual information to ChatGPT and Google image search. Users will also be able to access the revamped Visual Intelligence through the Camera Control button, but it will open up to the Siri interface in the Camera app instead of the standalone Visual Intelligence experience that we have now.

Apple will introduce iOS 27 at the Worldwide Developers Conference that's set to begin on June 8, 2026.

Article Link: iOS 27 Camera App to Get 'Siri' Mode With Nutrition Label Scanning

 

[M4irmidnight]

I don't think I've ever once used visual intelligence, shoving it into the camera app probably won't change that. ugh I hope iOS isn't filled with ai bloatware in 3 years time.

 

[HouseLannister]

Just easier access to Visual Intelligence will be a win. Now can we get circle to search instead of having to highlight screenshots?

 

[Astuces iOS]

More ai slop, guys that’s useless ! Looks like Apple is using AI to have ideas !

 

[TwoBytes]

And the nurtiional database will be USA only and even that will be incomplete

 

[WilliApple]

Visual Intelligence will let users scan phone numbers and addresses on business cards and other print media, adding the information to the Contacts app.

Doesn’t it already do this???

 

[AndyUnderscoreR]

I just want the old controls back!

 

[Sippincider]

It will be able to scan a nutrition label on food items to log the dietary information, plus users will be able to use it to add contact details for someone directly to the Contacts app

The camera app already tries to do too much.

 

[nortonandreev]

More useless AI **** nobody has asked for.

 

[Wx_Man]

All powered by Google Gemini. Because Apple was too busy trying to replicate Tesla and Occulus to read all the papers on LLMs and start making one in house 10 years ago.

 

[CarAnalogy]

I don't think I've ever once used visual intelligence, shoving it into the camera app probably won't change that. ugh I hope iOS isn't filled with ai bloatware in 3 years time.

I used it the other day and it’s exactly like just using Google visual search but not quite as good. Just does the same image search we’ve had for over a decade.

 

[horsefeathers]

They can’t even get Siri to tell you the time reliably, but they’re gonna implement this? Yeah, OK.

 

[ThomasJL]

Siri using having to use Scam Altman’s Chat GPT would’ve never happened if Tim Crook had never fired Scott Forstall. Forstall was a perfectionist who sometimes initially releases problematic software but then goes on to inject more of his visionary genius into it, crafting it into a stable and user-friendly marvel. If Cook hadn’t so stupidly fired Forstall just one year after Siri launched, Siri would’ve been an industry leader, and Apple would’ve never had to lower itself to the humiliating low of having to beg that scumbag Altman to allow him to use his evil software.

 

[erikkfi]

What's the point unless they're going to try to sherlock MyFitnessPal?