Apple Visual Intelligence provides iPhone 16 owners with a convenient and versatile tool for learning more about the world around them. The demos from Apple during September's iPhone 16 launch event showed this off with examples of identifying a dog's breed or finding out about a concert from a poster — experiences similar to my initial tests using the iOS 18.2 beta. But I decided to look elsewhere for a more rigorous test of Visual Intelligence.
If Visual Intelligence is meant to tell you about unfamiliar things in front of you, providing the context you wouldn't necessarily get otherwise, then trying it out on some paintings seemed an ideal application. Paintings are a visual medium with all sorts of angles to examine them from, but unless you have a degree in fine arts, it can be hard to approach. With a recent visit to London's Tate Britain gallery, I tried to change that.
