iPhone

Turn a food photo into a food you can use

Photograph a dish on iPhone, explore likely recipe matches, and save the one that fits your meal.

On an eligible iPhone, photograph a dish and use Apple Intelligence to turn what it recognizes into useful recipe choices. You stay in control from the first match to the food you save.

Less searching. More useful choices.

This Beta workflow is shown only when Apple Intelligence is available. Apple Vision assists with image classification inside the workflow, and Apple Intelligence helps form the food description. BeFit Tracker then searches public recipe websites and brings back likely matches for you to compare.

Beta assistance, with your review.

Recognition can be incomplete or wrong, and recipe websites can contain mistakes. The feature is optional and cannot guarantee dish, ingredient, serving, or nutrition accuracy. Review every result before importing it.

From picture to promising matches

Open User Library, choose Add Food, then select Take a Picture.
Center the dish in clear light and take the photo.
Review the recognized dish description. You can refine the wording before searching if it needs a little help.
Choose Find Recipe to explore likely matches from public recipe websites.

Take a Picture selected while adding a food in BeFit Tracker on iPhone — A clear, centered photo gives recognition a stronger starting point.

System camera framing a dish for BeFit Tracker — A clear, centered photo gives recognition a stronger starting point.

A photographed bowl recognized as clam chowder in BeFit Tracker — Recognition supplies a useful search phrase; recipe candidates give you real sources to compare.

Trusted clam chowder recipe matches found from the photographed dish — Recognition supplies a useful search phrase; recipe candidates give you real sources to compare.

Choose the recipe that looks right

Open the closest match and check its calories, macros, ingredients, and source. The first result does not have to be the right one. Move back to the candidate list whenever another recipe better reflects what is on your plate.

Selected clam chowder recipe with calories and macros in BeFit Tracker — Source nutrition and ingredients stay visible so the decision is yours—not the camera’s.

Recipe ingredients and nutrition ready for review in BeFit Tracker — Source nutrition and ingredients stay visible so the decision is yours—not the camera’s.

Save it for today and next time

When the recipe is a useful match, accept it, choose the quantity, meal, and date, then add it. The reviewed result becomes a reusable food in your User Library, ready to favorite, organize into a Collection, or log again later.

Reviewed clam chowder match ready to be accepted as a food — BeFit Tracker keeps the final logging choices with you.

Meal, quantity, and date controls for the imported food — BeFit Tracker keeps the final logging choices with you.

Saved clam chowder food showing source, quality, macro completeness, Favorites, Collections, and Add controls — The finished food keeps its source and nutrition context and is ready to reuse from your User Library.

A helpful match, not a guess dressed up as a fact.

The picture helps identify what to search for. Nutrition comes from the recipe you select, and BeFit Tracker gives you the chance to review it before anything is saved.

When the picture needs another try

If no trusted recipe matches appear, try a brighter photo with one dish centered in the frame. You can also refine the recognized description, dictate the dish, paste a recipe URL, search by name, or add the food manually. Network access is required for recipe discovery. On an iPhone where Apple Intelligence is unavailable, Take a Picture is hidden and the other food-creation choices remain available.

No match? That is useful information too.

BeFit Tracker leaves the selection open when it cannot find a trustworthy candidate instead of inventing nutrition.

BeFit Tracker showing no trusted recipe matches for a photographed dish — Retake, refine the description, or choose another food-entry path.

What a photo cannot measure

A picture cannot weigh the meal, calculate calories directly from pixels, verify every ingredient, or guarantee that a recipe matches your preparation. Recipe websites can also contain incomplete or incorrect information. Review the source and adjust the food when your dish differs.