Why is my iPhone X unable to identify plants with Siri?

Visual lookup requires iOS 15 or later, and your iPhone X is compatible with iOS 15 or iOS 16, but not fully. Some features require a newer model. When I look at the many footnotes on the supported features in iOS 15 (iOS 15 - Features - Apple (BY)), I can see, that the Live Text and Lookup require an A12 Bionic chip. I don't know, if your iPhone has such a chip. I remember that my old iPhone X could not read Live Text and visual lookup either.

Has your iPhone have had plenty of time to scan your photos for plants, objects, pets etc?

Does the Info button for any photo look like this? With a star on the border?

If you do not see a star on the Info button, the photo has not yet been scanned for objects or none have been detected. You may want token your ipHone connected to power when you are not using it, so it will have enough opportunity to scan for plans and animals.

Look for an app(s)n in the app store.

léonie wrote:

Has your iPhone have had plenty of time to scan your photos for plants, objects, pets etc?

When I take pictures of plants to identify them, the button pops up within seconds.

Lucky you, Idris. After each major System upgrade, Photos seems to take weeks, before it has scanned all photos again for people, pets , plants, objects. Only once the library has been scanned, any new photos will be scanned quickly on the go.

My Photos Library has a moderate size, currently just 73000 items.

Frequently the plants are classified incorrectly. I just took a picture of a lime tree in my garden, and the visual lookup is telling me it is a rare Chinese mammoth tree (Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Hu Xiansu, Wan Chun Cheng, 1948)) 🤭.

It is strange, that the visual lookup can mistake a broad-leaved tree for a coniferous tree.

It might depend on the region, yes. And perhaps I am making it harder for the system by continually switching between German and English as the system language.

But even then - the lime trees are very common in Germany, while mammoth trees are very rare, mostly found in botanical gardens.

I thought that Visual Look Up was different than the assigning of names to people and pets?

To date, Visual Look Up has been accurate for me. Perhaps things work better or worse depending on region.

I have not had the opportunity to identify (as far as I know) either of those trees. It did successfully identify an American Hornbeam, a tree I had never heard of.

No, you're phone isn't too old for Visual Lookup. Are you trying to use it starting with Siri? If so, that's not the way it works. See here:

Look up what's in a photo with your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

What region are you in? It's only available in a very few languages:

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Spanish

If you're not using a language that supports it, a third-party app would be your next option.