Describing Photos with Microsoft Bing for iOS

Tested and follow instruction but is not worth it. The podcast made it cool but is not. The app went on the trash.

The only issue I had, was, I needed to sign into Bing. Once that was done, everything ran smoothly. Tested out a couple of things on it. I’m not sure what problem you’re having, but I would try and be patient with it. Maybe there’s something we can help you with here.

I could not even find a signing in.

I've been using Bing ai since the day it came out. After its success in producing text, it really surprised and pleased me in the photo description feature. Especially the fact that we can give the details we want and that we can feed the chat with additional photo data when necessary makes bing a useful assistant.

Holger, your frankness and way with words are interesting. This podcast is simply presenting an option for describing a photo. The key lies in how you phrase your question. It’s fascinating how a minor change in wording can produce different results. Keep in mind that this app is not specifically designed for blind users, so it may not always provide the desired answer. Trying different questions may help you get the results you want. BeMyEyes, on the other hand, is designed for blind users and provides different results based on feedback from alpha testers. Overall, Microsoft Bing’s image description feature isn’t bad, though the interface could use some improvement. I’m sorry to hear that you don’t like the app in general. Take care.

Did so and it was hard to use. Hoping that Be my AI is easier to use and navigate. If I am not able to use it within 2 minutes, it goes out. I was looking forward to use Microsoft bing. Oh well,.

When you first launch the Bing app, it may prompt you to sign in. If you skipped this step, you can still sign in by selecting the Home button and tapping the App button located towards the bottom right. Swipe right to access the Profile button and tap it. The first item on the list should be your profile and account information, where you can sign in. I hope this helps!

I will consider it. Like I stated if I am not able to use it within 2 minutes, is gone. I may visit it again.

I'd like Bing to describe some images from the last of us but if I find an image and click on save, it says something like saved to your favourit images folder but I can't find that folder.

@Holger Fiallo, that's up to you but sometimes giving an app at least 10 or more minutes is useful so you know for a fact you can't use it.

Oh and remember; if you do use it again, once you are done asking your question; you'll need to wait for a while to hear the response.

Oh and there's a bug; if you use the mic option, make sure you turn off voiceovers' speech first, the voice might repeat a sentence over and over again. TO fix this for now, close and open the app.

At this time, no. Thanks.

Hi, once I heard this podcast, i put my hands to it, and the results I got with pictures of landscapes and things like that, were good enough, specially with pictures of my trip to japan where i have this picture where there is a signboard and bing translate to me what was written on it, although i'm not sure if it was the right text, it was awesome.
The problem was when I tried to have a discription of a document from a maintenance service i made to my treadmill months ago, where i got this results:
Bing said it was a rent agreement between two people (where it made up two random names by picking my first name and the maitenance guy's last name) and another hipotetic name, and the agreement was about a property in Alcala Spain (I leave in Mexico)
Then I continued asking questions about this fiction document and it told me where was this property (and gave me an absolute made up address again in Alcala Spain) and it told me a lot of invented stuff from the premises which it is absolutely awesome the other way round.
So be very very careful to trust on what it is described on the picture unless you already have the general knowssion of is the picture about.
Regards Anonimouse for this podcast, but from your other podcasts, I prefer to wait until I have the chance to try the be my eyes AI.

Hi, where do I go to get a radar image? I’m sure it is to my local weather page, but what do I need to look for once there. Great podcast by the way, very informative and useful. Keep up the good work!!!

I'm sure glad I don't subscribe to your way of doing things. If I did There several apps on both sides that I never would have gotten either accessible or more accessible. I would've missed out on wonderful helpful apps. Remember if you get stuck You have this wonderful community to help you.

First off, to be fair to Thomas, he says right at the outset of his podcast that this app isn't a panacea and has its limitations. Such has been my experience.

What's good about it:

I've found this app very useful with wine. If I get a half-decent shot of the wine bottle it will be very good at filling in the gaps. No, it's not a pocket sommelier - it will basically recapitulate tasting notes it finds on the internet, but don't worry about that; tasting is subjective, structure is more important. It's useful in giving you more information about the winery and so on, however.

It really can bring to life photos that have a landmark in them which it recognises. 'This is a picture of a person holding a pint of guinness on the terrace of the House of Commons at the palace of Westminster.' really nailed one of my photos.

The app sometimes needs a bit of help analysing a photograph but if you give it the right help, it will do a decent job. So for example, I put an Oxford University graduation ceremony photo through it. Initially the result was quite generic - this is a graduation ceremony, etc. I asked if it could tell me more about the particular graduation ceremony - which university, which degree, which subject? It could not. I then said: 'This photo was taken at Oxford University. Does that help you analyse the photo?' - 'sure, that helps me analyse the photo!,' came the response. it was then able to tell me that the person in the photo had probably just taken a Master's degree in a social sciences subject such as law or philosophy and that he was wearing sub fusc. Very good! The photo was of my BCL graduation, the BCL being Oxford's law master's. I was impressed that it recognised the oxford BCL gown, and very impressed by the reference to sub fusc - a term peculiar to Oxford and the name for the kit we have to wear to examinations, graduations and certain other university occasions.

Where it struggles:

Going back to wine for the moment, it's not an OCR app like Voicedream. The significance of this is I've not been able to get information specific to the year of the bbottle I'm drinking. So it recognised a Chateau Kirwan Margaux, for example, and gave me some useful information about that, but to find out that I had the 2020 Margaux I needed Voicedream. If you have a wine collection and you like to affix Braille labels, as I do, the year does matter. On a similar theme, if you like your craft beers or ales from microbreweries this app won't recognise those for you, from my experience, as they're not sufficiently widely available and it doesn't have images to compare them with. It made a frightful hash of a picture of a keg of Bishop Nick, for example.

As someone else has said, it sometimes gets things completely wrong. I asked what the building in the background of one of my wedding photos was. The building is actually one of the buildings at St John's College, oxford, were I was married. Bing told me that it was the headquarters of Bing UK - an office block in the London Borough of Barnet, built by Pearce and partners, with 14 floors. it then launched into an extremely granular specification for this office block containing details that I imagine even the architects didn't know! To the best of my knowledge, this office block is completely fictional - I know barnet very well. it didn't just get the location of the photograph wrong.

I've not had very good results describing clothes. it certainly won't help with bespoke t-shirts, for example, not in my experience. i have an Alan Partridge t-shirt left over from my stag do. Printed on that t-shirt is the face of Alan Partridge, as you would expect, along with one of his immortal utterances from series 2 episode 6: 'I just hate the general public!' Bing made a frightful hash of that. apple descriptions, however, said: 'possible text, I just hate the general public.' so not bad.

So it's no panacea. But it can prove helpful and useful in certain scenarios, more so if you give it a bit of help.

Hello,
since yesterday, the bing app is not giving me the option to check using GPT 4 anymore.
anyone has the same thing?

The radar that shows you what's going on isn't something I've found either. All of the ones I have found are animated and the only way to capture the animation is to do a screen recording of it. However, that is a video file, so won't be accepted as far as I can tell. I've taken screenshots of weather maps in the Weather app, but that won't give me a forcast or the track of a storm. So I'd enjoy a nudge in the right direction also.

Lately I haven’t found the photo library button anymore, The only thing I can do is take a picture. that’s OK most of the time, because that’s mostly how I use it, but I was surprised to have the button disappear. Has anyone else noticed this?

The subject is pretty self-explanatory.
All the other buttons are there, except the library button to add photos from my library.
This hinders me quite a bit.
Am I doing something wrong? Or are other people also experiencing this problem?
I am very impressed with how it works and the results it gives.
Kind regards, Gary Hough

Hi Gary, thanks for bringing this to my attention on AppleVis. I was quite surprised when I saw your comment and can confirm that I'm also unable to select photos from the Photo Library. It seems that the only option is to take a new picture, which is quite disappointing. I'm unsure if this change was intentional or if it's a bug on Microsoft's part.