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(Image credit: LG)
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Thebest washing machinesare awfully clever, but I’m not: you’ll often find me looking at the label on clothes wondering what the hell a particular laundry symbol means. So thank goodness foriOS 17, which is bringing a genuinely useful feature to every compatibleiPhone: it’s adding laundry symbols to Visual Lookup on your phone.
If you’re not already familiar with it, Visual Lookup enables you to find out more about the subject of a photo in apps such as Photos, Notes, Mail or Messages. For example if I take a photo of my greyhound, Visual Lookup enables me to research her breed; if I take a photo of a mystery plant, Visual Lookup tells me what I’m looking at. And iniOS17, Visual Lookup will tell me if it’s okay to tumble dry a top.
Exciting? Not really. Useful? Absolutely
I’m not being sarcastic when I say I’m really excited about this: it’s likeGoogleLens but for clothes. And while the results are clearly early ones – there’s a lot of repetition in the screenshots Vittici shared – this is exactly the kind of feature I love to see because it’s a way of making life a little bit easier and a little less annoying. I can’t wait to try the public beta.
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