About this episode

This episode explores how to use Live Text and Visual Look Up features on the iPhone for practical applications like text capture and identifying objects.

Stop fumbling with serial numbers, plant names, or care tags. Discover quick, practical tricks to turn your iPhone's camera into a powerhouse for instant web answers and hassle-free text capture. Enabling Live Text and checking device and language compatibility Using Live Text in Photos, Camera, and Notes for text selection Tips for extracting phone numbers, emails, and addresses with Live Text Scanning serial numbers and copying image text across Apple devices Identifying plants, animals, landmarks, and more with Visual Lookup Visual Lookup for laundry symbols and car dashboard lights Troubleshooting fussy features Best practices for clear OCR and uncluttered frames Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Hands-On Apple at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-apple Want access to the ad-free audio and video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord .

People in this episode

Host: Mikah Sargent

Topics covered

• Live Text
• Visual Look Up
• iPhone camera
• text capture
• OCR
• troubleshooting

Keywords

• Live Text
• Visual Look Up
• iPhone
• text selection
• OCR
• plant identification
• serial numbers
• image text

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