View spatial scenes in Apple Vision Pro

Spatial scenes add lifelike depth to photos in your Apple Vision Pro. You can view spatial scenes in Photos, Safari and Spatial Gallery.

How to view a spatial scene in Photos

  1. Make sure your Apple Vision Pro has the latest software. Spatial scenes require visionOS 26 or later.

  2. Open the Photos app, then tap a photo to open it.

  3. Tap the spatial scenes buttonnull that appears in the top right-hand corner of the photo.

  4. To immerse yourself in the spatial scene, tap the photo, then tap the Immersive buttonnull that appears next to the spatial scenes buttonnull.

  5. Tap Exit View to leave the immersive spatial scene.

The next time you open this photo in your Apple Vision Pro, it will appear as a spatial scene photo. To remove the spatial scene effect, open the photo and tap the spatial scenes buttonnull again.

View spatial scenes in other apps

When you turn on spatial browsing in Safari, large images in article-like web pages that support Reader mode are shown as spatial scenes automatically. Tap the spatial scenes buttonnull on a photo to make it appear as a regular 2D image.

You can also explore spatial scenes in the Spatial Gallery app, a regularly updated collection of Apple-curated spatial content.

View spatial scenes on other devices

Spatial scenes are immersive experiences that remain on your Apple Vision Pro. You can share any photo to another Apple Vision Pro, iPhone or iPad to recreate the same spatial scene on that device.

Viewing spatial scenes on iPhone requires iOS 26 or later. Viewing them on iPad requires iPadOS 26 or later.

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