Washing symbols or clothing care symbols are pictograms printed on clothing tags or labels to indicate the best way to clean clothes. These symbols provide instructions for washing, drying, ironing, and bleaching.
Some clothing tags provide symbols along with care instructions, such as “Do not bleach,” “Do not iron,” or “Dry clean only.” However, some tags only have symbols without instructions, which can make following the correct washing instructions confusing.
Doing laundry is boring enough without having to ask online for a symbol, say, a “P” in a circle with a straight line. (It means “mild dry cleaning with solvents.”)
iPhone helps you understand laundry symbols
The cool thing is that an iPhone running iOS 17 or later, even without Apple's smarts, can help you understand the laundry symbols.
Take a photo of a laundry label with symbols, and in the Photos app, swipe up on the photo or tap the “info” icon at the bottom, which looks like an “i” inside a circle. It may take a few seconds to appear, but you’ll see “Find Laundry Care” below the caption text field.
Click on that, and it will show the symbols it has identified, along with an explanation of each symbol on the clothing tag. There's more, below any such explanation is a website address and if you click on that or the text, you'll be taken to a page on iso.org that explains more about the symbol.
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