Apple Intelligence and Images Alt Text. or “I Think I Might Have Found a Use Case for Apple Intelligence”

Apple Intelligence has been, in my humble opinion, the least Apple-ish product Apple has released in years (ever?)

Leaaving aside my general eyebrow raise when it comes to AI, I think it’s fair to say that most of the features released under the Apple Intelligence umbrela are useless, or work so poorly that you try them once and forget about them (Image Playgrounds, imr!?)

It might also be the case that I’m just not in the intended audience for those features.

Anyway, yesterday I was playing with a phone running the RC of iOS 26, and I realized that I could actually build a shortcut that could help fil a gap in this very blog: most images don’t have a text description, or if they have it, it’s really barebones.

So here is a shortcut that lets you pick an image, generates a short text description, puts the description in the clipboard and throws a notification just for kicks and giggles (and visual feedback that the process has been completed) It works across platforms, apparently.