How to use Live Text on iPhone and iPad

Apple introduced Live Text with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, which implement OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to recognize, copy, and use text from images or scripts in real time. In iOS 16, you can scan texts from images on webpages in Safari.

So what is Live Text and how to use it on iPhone and iPad? Join me as I explore this new iOS feature in detail, as well as help you with how you can use it on your iPhone.

• What is live text?
• Live Text enabled devices
• How to recognize text using iPhone camera
• How to copy text from images
• Select text from video with Live Text in iOS 16
• How to Scan Texts from Web Page Images in Safari
• How to copy text from iPhone camera to any app
• Use Quick Actions in iOS 16
• How to call or email directly with Live Text

What is live text?

Live Text is an intelligent, integrated OCR feature available for iPhone and iPad running iOS 15 and later. It recognizes and digitizes text in photos. Scanned text can be used in a number of ways, from copying and pasting to searching the web.

In addition, Live Text also boasts the following features: