What Do The Laundry Symbols Mean? Your iPhone Camera Can Help You Understand Them
Your iPhone camera is more than just for taking pretty pictures.
By Syazwan Bahri — 13 Dec 2023, 05:52 PM
The iPhone is an amazing device packed with a lot of nifty features
Apple's iPhone smartphone is a piece of technological marvel, going beyond what normal phones can do. It also comes equipped with tonnes of helpful apps and features to simplify your life
For instance, there are so many apps that help you manage various aspects of your lifestyle, such as Notes, Numbers, Pages, Freeform, and more.
One of the most powerful tools hidden in your iPhone is the camera. It is capable of measuring distances, power augmented reality applications, and, more recently, the Internet discovered its ability to identify symbols.
An Instagram user found out that the iPhone camera can identify laundry symbols
Laundry symbols can be utterly perplexing for most people. To some, they might even resemble alien hieroglyphs printed on our T-shirts.
Instagram user 'thenatstory' demonstrated how the iPhone camera helped her understand what the laundry symbols mean.
Check out her Instagram reel below:
iPhone's camera app can help you decipher the care instructions your shirt needs
To activate the feature, follow the steps below:
1. Snap a picture of the symbols
2. Go to your gallery app and tap on the photo
3. Wait for the info icon below to change
4. Tap on the icon for more information
Another user pointed out it also works with car dashboard icons
We decided to give it a try, and it works perfectly, providing us with valuable information behind each dashboard symbol.
This is particularly useful if you're in a tight spot and need to know understand what's wrong with your car.
This Apple-exclusive feature is actually called Visual Look Up and is available on other devices such as the iPad
According to Apple, Visual Look Up is available on iPhones running iOS 15 or later.
It's also available for iPad users running iPadOS 15.1 or later, as well as older iPads. Visual Look Up is available for iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) or later, iPad Pro 11-inch (all models), iPad Air (3rd generation) or later, iPad (8th generation) or later, or iPad mini (5th generation) or later.
For Android users, they can use Google Lens to achieve similar results.
