# How to add a photo to a recipe, including an AI-generated one

Give a recipe without a picture a realistic AI-generated photo, take or choose your own, and turn on ingredient pictures.

A recipe you typed or pasted in has no picture, and some imports come without one. You can take or choose your own photo, or let Phork It! generate a realistic photo of the dish.

## Generate a photo with AI

**1. Open the recipe's menu**

Choose **Generate photo with AI**. (A recipe you're still typing in needs saving first.)

**2. Tap Generate photo with AI**

Phork It! makes a photo based on the recipe's title, ingredients and steps. It can take a little while; you can close the screen and come back, and it picks up where it left off.

**3. Review the preview**

Like it? Tap **Add photo**. Not quite right? Tap **Generate another photo**.

Nothing changes until you tap **Add photo**. If the recipe had no photos, the new one becomes its cover; otherwise it's added after your other photos, and the cover you chose stays.

> **Note:**

AI photos are labelled "AI-generated photo" in the app and on shared recipe pages, because your dish may look different. There's a small hourly limit on generating photos.

## Use your own photo

Open the recipe's menu, choose **Edit**, then tap **Choose photo** on the picture. You can take a photo, choose one from your library, remove the current one, or bring back the original with **Use original photo**. Tap **Save**.

Got a photo of what you actually made? Add it to your cook instead, when you mark the recipe as cooked.

## Ingredient pictures

Small illustrated pictures sit beside many ingredients in recipes, cook mode and your shopping list, so you can spot things at a glance. Not every ingredient has one yet.

To turn them off (or back on), open **Settings** › **Appearance** and switch **Ingredient pictures**. The choice follows your account to your other devices.

- [How to edit a recipe](https://phorkit.com/help/en/recipes-library/edit-a-recipe)
- [How to mark a recipe as cooked and rate it](https://phorkit.com/help/en/cooking/log-and-rate-cooks)

Source: https://phorkit.com/help/en/recipes-library/ai-recipe-photos (updated 2026-11-03)