Apple Intelligence Will Look Up Anything You Screenshot

See something interesting while scrolling on your iPhone? A new feature in iOS 26 will make it easier to learn more about it with updates to Apple's Visual Intelligence announced Monday at the company's annual WWDC event. 

Visual Intelligence can already use the company's Apple Intelligence models to identify what you see in the real world and photograph with the camera. The new feature is that you can take a screenshot of anything and use Apple Intelligence to do things like ask ChatGPT about it, add an event to your calendar or search for a product using one of your apps.

"You can search and take action across your apps using anything you're viewing," Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, said.

You can look up a product you see on social media with a screenshot and go straight to Etsy to find something like it.

Screenshot by CNET

The feature will live within the same screen where you would edit or share a screenshot, with buttons at the bottom for different ways to use generative AI features. 

The feature is reminiscent of Google's Circle to Search, which is available on Android devices and on iPhones through the Google and Chrome Apps.