If you’re wondering what Apple’s visual design language is going to look like in the coming years, we may now have a solid idea — and it’s all down to some new iOS icons.

ON the surface, emojis seem laughably trivial—cartoon faces and tiny icons cluttering our phones. Yet behind their colorful simplicity lies a fascinating story of 21st-century global culture.

To access Visual Look Up, use the Photos app on your iPhone and tap on an image. If iOS 17 has identified symbols, you’ll see a special icon in the bottom toolbar.