Can’t ID plants in photos after iOS 18.0 update

For no apparent reason, the ID function has started working again. Strange as I did nothing - as in my previous post- all of the appropriate functions were turned on with no luck. Pleased that whatever the glitch was, it has disappeared.

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.

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’ve been aware for months of losing the plant identification feature in my Photos. Today I decided to search the web for answers.

I’m on a 14 Pro iPhone running iOS 18.3.2 and I checked that all the toggles mentioned in the helpful posts here are on. They are. When I tap the information button (i in a circle) there’s no option to search or to identify the plant. A lot of the posts here date from last fall, but this appears to still be an issue in March 2025.

This feature used to work well and I never asked for it to go away. I’m trying to understand if it’s possible to get it back and how to accomplish that.

Hi Guys. Here’s the thing. The plant ID feature was so cool and we all loved it! Right? So they removed it. Now there are several plant ID apps that you can get in the App Store. You have to pay for them! So, Apple gave us a great feature and then took it away so they can make even more money by selling apps to the plant ID companies. The thing about the plant ID apps is they can give you more information than you want in order to justify the cost to you. All I want is the name of the plant I’m looking at. Just the name, please. For that reason I have not downloaded a plant ID app.

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.

I did the search as suggested on the Home Screen search window and in settings and 'show related content' yields nothing in either case. I have an iPhone 15 with the 18.3.2 version software. I was with a friend and we both took pictures of the same plant at the same distance and same time. For her dots and leaf showed up under the i on the picture and for me, nothing. I dont understand it and I dont know what to do. Any help appreciated! Thanks. Screen shots of where to type and what would be helpful so I could check I have the right settings at least.

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.

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.

I just bought an iphone 16 pro and I cannot get it to identify plants and flowers in my Photos. Nothing I do gives me a leaf or an i with stars. I was really looking forward to doing this with my new phone because I never was able to get my iphone 14 to do it. I see others are having the same issue.

I updated to iOS 18.0.1 and still am not able to id my plant!

where is “Show related content” pls?

Thanks Richard! That did the trick!

Great! I hope that works for others…

I’ve tried both of what you suggested and they’re already toggled on. I just did the recent update. I’m thinking it stopped with the update before. Any other suggestions?