Just tap on the phone number or email address. It could be a screenshot of a contact card that someone sent you. Live Text will also let users make a call or send an email if the image has such details. Make a call or send an email with Live Text Just make sure that the text is clearly visible. The same also works on Safari, if you open an image that has text in it. You can now paste it into another app and send it to others. If you want to copy the text, just select all the text in the photo, and copy it. (Image credit: Apple)Ī menu should pop up with options to copy-paste, look, select all, etc for the text. The icon is similar to a little notepad.Īpple Live Text: Users can make a phone call or send emails as the camera will now recognise an email id or phone number from a photo’s text. To highlight all text inside the photo, tap the indicator icon in the lower-right corner of the photo. Apple will automatically detect there is some text here, and allow users to copy-paste, etc. Touch and hold a word and move the grab points to adjust the selection. A screenshot with text will work great here. Open the Photos app, and select a picture that has written text in it. Nandagopal Rajan SeptemHow to use Live to copy the text inside a photo or image In order to turn on Live Text for all supported languages, go to Settings > General > Language & Region, and enable Live Text.
To turn on Live Text in the Camera app, go to Settings and then scroll down to Camera.
The Live Text currently supports English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Spanish languages. All iPhones with A12 Bionic chipset or later can support this. Users will need an iPhone Xs, iPhone XR or later with iOS 15 to run this. More Premium Stories > What devices support Live Text?īut Apple is not rolling out Live Text for all iPhones which are running iOS 15.