Aug 13th 2026
Hands-On Apple 244
Live Text & Visual Look Up
Hosted by
Mikah Sargent
Selecting Words & Learning Info From Images
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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
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