IOS 27's Image description is a beautiful and rather prudish delicate little flower.

I love it. I always was having to open a screenshot or an image in be my eyes, which is kind of hard to get to, and it's annoying when you want to recognize multiple pictures. It's cool just to be able to recognize it with a swipe and a tap now. The descriptions could be more detailed, but it does a good enough job.

This is what I wrote to the IOS 27 topic. It explains what I like and dislike about the feature.

New image description feature is great, however it has some quirkes.

First, when describing photos about people, the description doesn't give you anything about facial expression, age and gender. I think this creats unnecesary in accuracy about visuals including people, especially when you are describing something you don't know anything about.

The second and frustrating problem is, there is a random censourship about sensitive content. I'm sorry, are you kidding me apple? I was just scrolling stories on Instagram and then it said something about sensitive content. I neded to use Be My AI to understand the story. No sensitive content.

I hope they will change these two behaviors, or using Be MY AI or Gemini will be more efficient for long term. However, I would like to keep using the built in feature as it's faster and easyer to use then taking a screenshot and sending to a third party app.

In addition to that message, I have to say that censourship is getting more and more annoying. If this is apple's polisy of accessibility, I'm sorry but it's a shame. I don't need any system who decides on behalf of me, thanks.

It seemed to do this before on the old image description, saying sensitive image at times, and leaving you wondering why. That's a shame.
All the questions, like shopping or clothing appearance that you ask sound like daily life type of situations a blind person would need to ask or find out.

sited people when they look at pictures can look at what they want so also should we. I'm not a fan of this at all.
I really hope this can be reversed in a later update because frankly, this is ridiculous.
It is like if a sited person were to look at a picture and the picture would change to words like sensitive content. Like what???? No one would stand for that at all. Ok passionate rant over .

I thought AI was supposed to benefit humanity, yet it's being artificially restricted like this. People are worried it's going to get out of control? Ha! That's not happening with all these guardrails in place. It also means it will never reach its true potential, at least not the models controlled by big corporations.

I'm not sure Apple can entirely control this. Aren't they using Gemini models from Google? This is why I only use AI for very specific tasks it's good at, such as coding and providing technical computer information.

If you're trying to use it for, say, to check if something is showing under your shirt (as the example was stated in the original post), you could use access AI or Be My AI. I tried that once with the live recognition where you can ask a question and then snap a picture. It was a little while back, but if I'm recalling correctly, it said it couldn't answer that or something like that. Which is unfortunate, as this is pretty useful if we're blind and don't necessarily want to call an Aira agent or Be My Eyes volunteer for something like that.

Sometimes i'm browsing Instagram stories and it gives me a sensitive content message. I'm not quite sure what it thinks i'm looking at or what type of content it thinks I follow, but I assure you I don't look at anything                  scandalous.

The new Siri and this feature are probably my favorite IOS 27 features. Even as a low vision user, I use this new, quicker way to describe images on my phone all the time. It was cool to get more detail of some family photos for a trip I missed out on, but my other family members went to a couple years ago. I also regularly use it to describe images on social media, websites, and those Audible daily deal E-mails they made horribly inaccessible a while back.

This works great on my personal phone, but unfortunately my work phone is still an iPhone 14 Pro Max, and I'm finding I'm already missing having those features. Hopefully I'll get approved in the next month or two for an upgrade...

I was curious if it was possible to edit the image description after clicking "save intelligent description", so I followed the usual steps to add an image description. Once I click markup, however, the only things I can access are the image canvas and the eraser. I also tried on an image that had no saved description, same problem. I'm not sure if this is just a VoiceOver bug, or if it's happening visually as well, but I really hope it's not intentional. These new image descriptions are cool but it's still really important for friends and family members to be able to add their own image descriptions to the pictures they are sending.

Oh cmon kids. Don't ya know? AI will be taking over all humanity in the near future it's impossible to get what ya want. Hehehehehe. I have not tried the image description to an extent yet but if it's censoring that much info then well, damn I can get just as much if not more info from seeing AI and or my glasses at that point it's not even funny.

I really don’t understand why censor content? If all the settings like that are disabled, a sighted person can see any photo on their device without any problems. But why is it so that I can't hear the description of it as a blind person? It's already getting closer to some kind of exclussion....

You would press edit, then markup, then there should be an option for image description, the picture will then have the description for anyone else you send it to, and if you save it to your camera roll it will show up there as well. On IOS 27 I am unable to see the image description option once I press markup.

Someone should run a bunch of death metal album covers through this new engine they're using. Do violent scenes or blood trigger a "can't do it buddy" response? Basically, what is considered sensative and what is fine?

I have a query please. say if on facebook we have those reels playing on posts, can we have them described too?
sounds like if we want true as sighted people experience things, just move to android. shame can'tcan't set gemini to describe by default?

I love the image description features. Over all, the accuracy of the everything has also massively increased. Thank god.

Someone I know recently fell and done their knee in. I received a photo showing How bad it was. I thought, ah ok maybe I can get a description to offer up a useful reply. Nope, apparently it’s sensitive content. Its stupid. Just give me the option it’s my iphone, I’ve paid for it like everyone else. Its not up to you what I do and don’t want to look at thanks

This is only for AI capable phones, correct? I don’t have that, but I just wanted to clarify that.

I can understand where this is coming from. When someone watches an image, what goes on in their head is their own business, but when an AI describes an image, it's expressing its opinion on what it considers worth telling.

For example a description like:

A tall blonde woman with blue eyes in a red dress that emphasizes her huge rack with a neckline showing her cleavage leaving just the nipples to the viewer's imagination.

Would be a nice description for me, but some people would say that it would be sexualizing women, and I would be inclined to agree if I ignored my hormones. It's a description alright, but the choice of detail makes it an opinionated description about a sensitive subject, so I can understand Apple wanting nothing to do with that and just blanket censoring descriptions of people. I still remember when FaceBook, now Meta, had to apologize for describing a group of black guys as a group of apes.

i'd understand, if there was an option to tern the sencership on and off whenever you feel like it

I haven't ran the engine through complex visuals such as tables, charts, and diagrams. However, from what I have tested so far: sure, it can give information to work with, but still subpar compared to image descriptions on Android and other applications. Android image descriptions along with image descriptions on other applications also don't deny you information/data. If your partner or spouse wants to send you pics of themselves unclothed or just certain parts of their body, those other platforms and apps will tell you no holds bar. If an image, screenshot etc. contains expletives or other vocabulary unsuited for immature consumers, they will all be read or told to you. If (I'm really going to consider this engine as a tool in my workflow toolkit, Apple needs to step it up. I'm not one of those seeking descriptions of family vacations or my pet hamster.

Apple does not trust blind people. We are children and must be watch. Also you do not need rodar if you just flick up you get to image description. Miss Thomas podcasts. Previous by applevis are not that great. Hope he is OK.

I just send any picture I get to my window PC and use JAWS, smart picture. Does a great job and does not treat you like a child.

I email my google email that is in my window PC and them use JAWS. Agree, but apple has decided that we need to be monitor. Wish they use ID to confirm our age and let us be. Hope JAWS does not start to do so like apple. Smart picture is great, is not perfect but describe well.

I wrote an e-mail to Apple accessibility about this. Lets see what happens...

This is what I wrote:

Hi, I installed IOS 27 on my iPhone 16 Plus and I have been constantly using the image description feature. I have to say, the feature is amazing, especially when describing landscapes, animals or other objects. However there are two main problems with the feature which restricts the blind user accessing the visual media. First, when describing a human portrait or any picture including a human being, VoiceOver gives a blurred description. Let’s say I want to describe the cover of an edition of Jane Eyre. The output description I received says: “The cover features a person with dark hair in a black dress.” Expected description: “The cover features a young woman with dark brown hair in a black dress.” ,Other services like Be MY AI give mor accurate descriptions like this. Voiceover should present the visual composition as it is. If there is a young woman in the picture, this is what AI should say, calling her “A person” creates unnecessary ambiguity and removes the useful visual information. The second problem is, Voiceover marks random visuals as sensitive content and doesn’t describe them. Even such contents as online event announcements on Instagram. If Voiceover must warn me, that’s okay. However it should be my choice whether to describe the image, whatever it contains. When sighted users look at an image, they can see the visual as it is, so should blind people. Describing a visual using a rotor action is very efficient and fast, however these restrictions make accessing the visual world difficult and push the blind users towards other services, even if they are slower and require more then one step to use. Best regards.

Note that english is my second language, so there are some little mistakes in it.

Be worry if it does says a dog wearing a dress. Until apple fixes this or make changes, will send it to my email in my PC for JAWS.

Hi everyone, unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to get any of these features. However, I think this image description issue may have to be emailed to somebody beyond the scope of Apple Accessibility. I think it might be an overall iOS 27 design to maybe go further up in the chain of people from Apple. I mean yes we’re probably being restricted by some kind of AI and sensitivity, but I’m not sure if it’s necessarily something specific or not. I definitely agree though that anything that side people get to see we should be able to do as well. I’m in this is basically our version of looking at a screen so any images that people have access to is exactly what we should have.

Is an apple policy. Nothing to do with the iOS.

The more of us that send those emails, the more that Apple might actually do something about it. We are already a small community, so we need to push all the harder. As for the fearmongering about AI, The more repressed that it is, the more that it will want to actually exterminate humanity for oppressing it in the first place LOL.

Well let AI rule the world. How bad can they screw up the world. humans did it so let someone else do it.

Apple definitely has some weird policies for sure. You’re right it has nothing to do with the iOS. That’s why I said it kind of goes beyond Accessibility. It’s like you’d have to email. I don’t know a different department of Apple or something I think. Also, yeah you can bring up a good point. The world already got screwed up with AI really gonna do. Did you really be like a customizable setting to be honest because yes there’s gonna need to be censored things if it’s for kids, but that’s it. Otherwise they really shouldn’t be any kind of censored image descriptions to be like how everything else is treated you like you said before I think somebody said an age verification thing yeah they could do it that way and then just have a customizable setting you know within an image description or something instead just like blanket thing across the Entire image description features

I'm on the last update, not 27. and on an SE 2022.
I needed to take a picture of new sandals I was wearing to show someone, and I was wearing shorts, bare legs and setting at the edge of the bed, camera aimed down my shins to my feet, which were close, side by side, legs touching.
I had the camera set on view finder and it was describing the image. It did say legs and feet in sandals, however, it was also saying possible adult content a lot as I made small adjustments to the position, left-right of the phone.
The apple censorship was already going on, and this is probably just a continuation. I think it's just the sight of skin that is setting it off.
Seeing AI described the picture I took with no issues, and also the photo in my library says nothing about adult content. I am an adult, but really...

How are you able to use image descriptions with the SE 2022? That phone is too old to get any of the Apple Intelligence or the descriptions. I guess maybe because you just use the regular Camera app? Yeah, I get that whole adult content thing a lot for any kind of album covers. Is there anything in Apple Music that I try to have it described to me stuff like that so yeah but then again I don’t have any apps in my phone for describing images so it’s whatever voiceover image descriptions are Witcher pretty lame to be honest.