Live Text is a new iPhone feature for iOS 15 that lets you copy, paste, and share text and more straight from your Camera or Photos app. Your iPhone will recognize text in a handwritten note, a business card, a nutrition label, a street sign, and so many other places. We'll teach you how to use Live Text on iPhone in pictures and the Camera app.
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Why You'll Love Live Text
* Save handwritten notes to other apps (like the Notes app) using Live Text so you can save or share the information without having to type it manually.
* Use iPhone Live Text to do things like recognize a restaurant sign, look up the restaurant, and share it with friends or make a reservation.
* Translate and look up text anywhere, as long as you have your iPhone with you.
How to Use Live Text: iPhone Camera
iOS 15 Live Text on iPhone uses OCR (optical character recognition) technology to identify text in visual media, which makes it incredibly simple to copy, paste, look up, share, and save text from the Photos and Camera apps.
To activate Live Text in the Camera app as shown below, you'll need an iPhone XS or newer. To learn more the cool new features offered in iOS 15, check out our Tip of the Day newsletter!
Here's how to use Live Text with the iPhone Camera app:
* Open the Camera on your iPhone.
* Point your camera at the text you would like to select.
* Tap the Live Text icon that pops up in the corner of the camera view. This will appear once the iPhone Live Text feature recognizes available text in the camera's field of vision.
* You'll see a toolbar where you can choose Copy, Select All, Look Up, Translate, or Share.
* Tap Select All or drag the cursor to select the text you want to capture.
* If desired, move the cursors to select only the text you want.
* Tap Look Up to get more information about the selected text.
* You'll see a menu at the bottom of your screen containing definitions and other information for the text you selected with Live Text.
* To share the selected text, tap Share.
* You'll be able to send the text via Messages or another app, or select another sharing method from the Share menu.
* To translate the text into another language, tap Translate. Live Text's supported languages include English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, German, and Portuguese.
* Use the Translate menu at the bottom of the screen to translate the selected text and copy the translation if you need to.
* If you want to copy the selected text to paste it into another app, tap Copy. You can paste it into any other app, like Notes or Safari.
Isn't it fun? Our team here at iPhone Life has been getting a real thrill out of using Live Text to copy our scribbled notes to save in Reminders, Notes, and more. Interested to learn how to use the Live Text feature on existing photos, not just in the Camera app? Keep reading!
How to Use Live Text in Photos on iPhone
You can also use Live Text on any photo containing text in your Photo library—yes, even pictures taken before Live Text existed! Here's how to select text with Live Text in iPhone Photos:
* Open the Photos app.
* Tap on the photo containing the text you want to select.
* Tap the Live Text icon. This will appear in the bottom-right corner once your iPhone Live Text feature recognizes available text in a photo.
* Select your desired text using the cursor or tapping on specific words.
* Now you can explore selected text in the same way you can from the Camera app by tapping Copy, Look Up, Share, or Translate.
And there you have it! My favorite thing to do with this new iOS 15 feature is to send my friends URLs from my laptop using the Camera app. It saves me so much time instead of emailing the URL or trying to share it some other way. What's your favorite thing to do with Live Text on iPhone? How-ToiPhoneAppsCameraPhotosApple AppsPhoto & VideoMaster your iPhone in one minute a day: Sign up here to get our FREE Tip of the Day delivered right to your inbox.
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