If the warning lights come on suddenly on your instrument panel while you are driving your vehicle, the most logical thing you can do is to take it to the service. However, knowing what each sign on the instrument panel means can make your job easier without going to the service. To make sure you know what your car is saying, you can do one of two things: read the owner’s manual or upgrade to iOS 17, which when available will turn your iPhone into a translator for your malfunctioning car.
According to a Reddit user testing the beta version of iOS 17, the Visual Look Up feature is expanding to include all of the various markers on a tool’s dashboard. Reddit user yahlover has shared several screenshots of the iOS 17 beta, where he successfully recognizes and explains signs such as the double triangle showing the button that turns on a car’s quad headlights, and even the setting that defrosts the windshield.
What is Visual Look Up?
With iOS 15, Apple introduced a feature called Visual Look Up, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze photos taken with the iPhone’s camera and tries to decipher them, providing more information about what’s in the photo. It gave the iPhone the ability to detect the type of dog you see in the park or what kind of flower grows in your neighbor’s garden.
This is an app that demonstrates the practical benefits of artificial intelligence, and it looks like Apple continues to expand the capabilities of the Visual Look Up feature. Last month, the company announced new accessibility features coming to iOS and iPadOS. The Point and Speak feature that came to the Magnifier app allowed visually impaired people to automatically recognize things like various buttons on a microwave and read them aloud.
While malfunction lights are now almost universal on all vehicles, they can still be incomprehensible, especially for new drivers. While eventually vehicle dashboards will become giant screens that can offer more descriptive information about controls and warnings, it will be decades before the standard instrument cluster icons used today are gone forever. And iOS 17 seems to allow us to get through these intervening years more easily.
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