How to use Live Text
Edit and translate image text on your iPhone
Image credits: Apple Inc
IT WILL TAKE
> 30 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN
> How to use Live Text on iPhone, iPad and Mac
YOU’LL NEED
> macOS 13, iOS 16, or iPadOS 16 or later
Genius tip!
> If your iPhone doesn’t recognise text in the Camera app, try moving closer or further away, or improving the lighting if possible.
Not so long ago, text was text and an image was an image. You could copy, paste and edit text, but if the text you wanted to work on was part of an image, then tough luck. But all that changed with Live Text on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Now, even if the text is in an image, your device will recognise it and convert it to text for you to manipulate in any way you like. The tech is similar to the optical character recognition (OCR) that we’ve become used to over the past couple of decades. But in real time, with no lag, it feels like (incredibly useful) magic.