Since version 2027.1, No Meat Today can look at your plate. It is optional, it never logs anything by itself, and you can hide it entirely. Here is the whole feature in one page.
Where it is
On Today, a small camera moon orbits the planet. Tap it to photograph your plate, or import a photo you already took. The moon also appears inside the meal editor, so you can scan a meal you have already started logging.
What happens next
- Apple Intelligence looks at the picture and suggests the foods it sees. They arrive as chips. Remove any that are wrong.
- The plate’s carbon footprint drifts up the screen as clouds. The meter under the planet counts them against your cloud jar: six clouds, 1.5 kg of CO₂e, is the app’s own target for a day’s food. Change it in Settings › Diet Goals › Cloud jar, or with Edit on the meter.
- Naomi asks Count this as meat? The answer follows your own diet: a portion only counts when it belongs to a group you told the app you avoid.
- You answer YES or NO exactly as you always have. Nothing is logged until that tap.
If you like, guess first: before Naomi gives her number, wager a moon on how many clouds the plate makes. She tells you how close you were.
Say what the camera can’t see
Tap the microphone under the viewfinder and describe the plate out loud: “the sauce has cream”, “that is tofu, not chicken”. Your words appear as you speak and travel with the photo, so the estimate knows what it could not see. Dictation runs on your device; the first time, the language pack downloads itself.
If it gets it wrong
It will, sometimes. Remove a chip, or tap Analyze again on the details page to send the same photo back and keep whichever reading matches what you ate. Every food in the result has its own page with the quantity, the cost, and where those numbers come from. The end of every scan opens How scanning works, which explains what the model is asked and the assumptions it makes.
What it needs
- iOS 27 or later, on an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence.
- An internet connection: the analysis runs on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, not on the phone.
- A daily allowance. iCloud+ raises it.
Everything else in the app keeps working offline, on iOS 16.2 and later.
Your photos
Scanning runs on Private Cloud Compute. Your photos are never stored there, never used to train anything, and Apple cannot read them. The copy you keep stays on your phone and in your own private iCloud, which I have no way to read either.
Two things you can change in Settings (the gear at the top right of Today):
- Meal — photos you keep are saved to your photo library like any other shot. Switch that off here.
- Planets & Moons — hide the camera moon if you would rather not see it. Everything else stays as it was.
Memories
Every plate you photograph becomes a card in the Memories tab, one per day. Filter them, give one a heart, five stars or a bookmark, and bring a bookmarked memory into any meal with the Memories button beside Food and Plate.
The figures behind the clouds — and every other number the app shows — are on the Sources page.