Your iPhone now identifies plants

[deckhandmike]

Your camera has a new feature where you take a picture of a plant and it uploads the most likely guesses and pictures of similar plants. I was just playing with it in the dark and it?s very good. It identified cucumbers and green onion so I tried to stump it. It even got my Suriname cherry, dragon fruit and carrion flower. I wouldn?t use it to identify wild mushrooms or stuff like that but it can certainly get you on the right path to look further into stuff. Pretty nifty and you don?t need to download another app for it.

I?m currently running a 12 pro max so it applies to older phones, not just the newest. It doesn?t work on old photos. Just ones I?ve taken recently so it came in one of the updates.

This is a game changer for foraging. I often see stuff I?m unsure of but now I at least have a starting point for my own research. Obviously I make my own decisions and am not trusting my iPhone. Will be pretty cool too when out on a walk and see a neighbor?s landscaping and wonder what looks so good.

[hermosabeach]

How does it work?

Is it when you are taking a photo?

Or do you have to pull up an existing photo and do something?

[DentonandSasquatchShow]

I'm sure your iPhone is doing a lot more than identifying plants.

[sealocan]

It's good that the Apple phone can do it on its own because I agree with you op why should you need to download lots of apps that you're not going to use much.

But just in case anyone on here doesn't already know there have been apps, that have been out for a little while, that supposedly can identify plants, vegetables, types of rocks, etc. and mushrooms.

And although some plants can be toxic if misidentified I would be very cautious using any of the mushroom ID apps because some mushroom species look similar.

If anyone's interested in those you just do a Google search for the 10 best plant / mushroom / whatever you want identifying apps.
And pick one that has good reviews and doesn't want every permission under the sun.

[deckhandmike]

You take the photo and then click on the letter i icon on the bottom of the photo. Then on the info page there is a little leaf icon that says plant. Click on that.

[Librarian]

I had an app that was free for a couple years, then went to subscription model, so I dropped it. But it was pretty good - identified mosses and trees and some bugs!

Never counted on it for edible/poisonous, always 'hmm, what's that?' kind of thing.

I did not know the plant ID feature on the iphone camera - thanks!

EDIT Just tried it on a pic from a couple days ago, of one of my street trees; ID was correct, so 100% success rate so far.

[MK6]

on androids that has been a feature for many years. it is referred to as the Bixby assistant app

[mofugly13]

I use an app called inaturalist. It's very good for all things nature. Plants, insects, critters, fungus...

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[user120312]

Handy as long as a cell system exists, I'll posit, presuming the meat and potatoes of the plant identification is stored in the cloud.

In adverse action, I'd expect one side or the other to take that down either locally or systemically. Natural disasters are a wild card. The old fashioned Western Garden book is a good reference in that case, presuming one lives in the West.

If one lives in a diverse nautural biosystem like the forest I live in, and doesn't know every last plant in it (I don't), app could be a good way to build an offline database of local flora as well as actively test one's knowledge on training ops. Thanks.

[deckhandmike]

You need to learn to I’d stuff before you have to I’d stuff so it works for me. I can always just run the picture once I get service. ID’ing the plant is the easy part. Learning to consistently find it and identifying throughout the seasons is the hard part. So anything that can top off the knowledge bank is perfect.

Once you get a confirmed ID on something one of the things I always do is put it into my smell memory. I just smash up some leaves and smell for a few minutes. Many plants smell very unique and it’s one of the things no one ever talks about. Being married to a sommelier I’ve learned that your nose can be far more accurate than your eyes.

[Clippers015]

Does this work differently than Google Lens?


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[danfinger]

Does this work differently than Google Lens?
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No. It's basically the same thing. Google lens launched in 2017.

[the86d]

Make sure, that you make sure...
Google Lens ID'd young pokeweek as Virginia Tobacco at a place I was renting.

Once the flowers, then berries started busting out, Lens correctly ID'd it, but be aware, and quadruple-check...

[user120312]

In the realm of an iPhone identifying plants, one that was blown out of Alaska 1282 survived a fall of about 16,000 ft and landed, found working, in some bushes.

[TrailerparkTrash]

Can it identify which strain of weed someone is smoking? I'd definitely give up my android for that

Hahaha, now that’s funny

Skunk
Chronic
Kauaian electric
Purple Kush
Indica

…I can see it now.