Have you ever captured a photo of a sign or poster to have the information handy for later reference? Our smartphones have made it incredibly convenient to snap pictures of anything in an instant, and ...

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Live Text lets you grab text from photos and videos to make phone calls, send emails, translate languages, and run web searches. Visual Lookup allows you to copy and paste images. Introduced in iOS 15 ...

Interactive text is an underrated iOS feature that’s been with the iPhone since the beginning. When it works, you can tap on a phone number and choose to call it, or navigate to an address that ...

In iOS 16, Apple has expanded the reach of its Live Text feature, which can recognize text in not just photos, but also videos now, too. Keep reading to learn how to use it. In iOS 15, Apple ...

We’re in 2022, so grabbing text from a website or a document should be pretty easy, right? But that’s not always the case. There might be part of a site that doesn’t easily let you copy some text, or ...

In iOS 15, Apple has added a new feature called Live Text that can recognize text when it appears in your camera's viewfinder or in a photo you've taken and let you perform several actions with it.

Live Text was introduced as a new feature in macOS Monterey, and it allows you to use the text in an image. It’s a feature that’s quite helpful—for example, if you’ve ever been in a meeting or lecture ...