I’ve got an iPhone 13 pro. I upgraded the iOS to 18.0 a few days ago. Took photos of plants yesterday and I’m not shown the leaf when I access the info button on the new photos nor on any of the older ones where earlier I had been able to use the phone to get an ID (even if occasionally it was wrong). I hope someone knows how to get this function back.
iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 18
OK, I figured out the problem. I was searching for "show related content" in the search bar. You have to instead scroll down to the "search" entry in the list (between home screen and Siri), click on that, and then you'll see the "show related content" button. Turn that on and it works.
OK, I figured out the problem. I was searching for "show related content" in the search bar. You have to instead scroll down to the "search" entry in the list (between home screen and Siri), click on that, and then you'll see the "show related content" button. Turn that on and it works.
The 'show featured content' was off for me - I had done all steps recommended by others before your post.....to no avail.
Once I turned this button on, the feature magically appeared! yay!!!
FYI, to others.....I do not have Siri on - do not want that feature --- so Siri has nothing to do with the identification feature.
Settings App -
Search menu -
slider switch near the top of the screen “Show Related Content”
Had the problem, found the solution here just now. Yes it works.
iPhone 12 mini running iOS 18.0.1
I had this.
I went to Siri and search in settings, go to the “content from apple” sub heading and turn on the “show in look up” option.
it worked for me, I don’t know why it stopped originally though.
I had the same problem until tonight, click on scroll down to search from the main settings menu and toggle on show related content. It’s now working. See pics below for example.
Thanks Richard,
Turning on “Show Related Content” did the trick.
It’s weird that I lost the plant ID function without being asked or told how to restore it.
I found it, in Settings > Search > turn ON Show Related Content. Also, make sure you have a language that is supported. I already had English and Spanish, and those are supported.
If anyone else has this problem, Go to settings, click on SEARCH and toggle on ‘Show Related Content’ et violà!
I love that visual ID stuff. It works for me in iOS 18, but it took a day or two to catalog all the scans.
Check "Settings>Search>Show Related Content" and see if that's turned on.
How about Enhanced Visual Search-- is it turned on in Settings>apps >Photos? (Honestly, I don't know what these do-- but they sound relevant. Turning them on may still take time to work.)
RavynQ my 12 mini running iOS 18.1 started showing the "leaf" info icon under photos after I reenabled "Show Related Content" (see above comment) so I'm sure your 13 mini has the same capability. Maybe there is another setting that also needs to be enabled? Maybe you can find something that seems to be related in Settings->Camera or in Settings->Search->Camera. But at the very least maybe just shutdown and restart the phone to see if the problem resolves.
Richard.Taylor wrote:
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Check "Settings>Search>Show Related Content" and see if that's turned on.
How about Enhanced Visual Search-- is it turned on in Settings>apps >Photos?
(Honestly, I don't know what these do-- but they sound relevant. Turning them on may still take time to work.)
There are short explanations directly in the Settings.
Click Settings.
Scroll within the main page of Settings to Search (It is in the same block as General, but do not click General, just keep going down and Search is between Home Screen and Standby).
Expand Search, and turn on Show Related Content. This fixed the problem for me.
We have 18.3. I finally found if I chose ‘search under the apps that it took me to a page where I could toggle the Show Related Content on.
However, husband’s phone doesn’t show ‘search.’ No idea how to fix
I followed all the previous notes to turn on various options in Settings. I am on 18.3. something (Updating to 18.4 soon) and iPhone 12 Mini. The details between before and now are slightly different. You open a plant photo, wait for the "i" in the circle to add little "stars" at the circle's edge. Choose that "i" , then you should see a white outline moving around the plant, then choose the option "Look up Plant" I did that and it worked well and I was able to add a caption to that photo as well. Hopefully that Caption will be in the photo's metadata for future searches.
Endora22 wrote: …I did the search and it is not found. I tried all the suggestions but still nothing 🫤
I'd say, if this is still a problem for you, start a new thread and give a complete description of what's happening, including what suggestions you've tried. It will save those trying to help from having to backtrack to find what you mean, and it will be more useful to others.
Can’t ID plants in photos after iOS 18.0 update
