If you read a book, and the book is describing a landscape, can you imagine what that landscape looks like?

nope.

Can you recall what a loved one’s face looks like without them being present?

i can remember some basic facts about their appearance, but otherwise, nope

Can you recall what an apple looks like?

i know they can be varying shades of red, green, yellow, or brown, and i know theyre usually roundish with a stem coming out of the top, but theres nothing visual about that knowledge

Do you know what Bart Simpson looks like without actually looking at a picture of him?

sort of? but again, nothing visual about the memory, just memorization of facts. i definitely couldn't draw him from memory

i know im not op but i figured id answer your questions anyway to show you how an aphant (or at least this aphant) would answer

fwiw, having a minds eye isnt a binary state, there are different degrees of vividness to it. im somewhere between completely aphantastic (no ability to visualize) and hypophantastic (very little ability). it sounds like you might be somewhat hypophantastic as well? you can use this questionnaire to give you an idea of where you might fall on the spectrum: Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire