Live Text in iOS 16: A New Era of Interactivity

In this video, we'll be exploring the improvements made to Live Text in iOS 16, a feature that was introduced back in iOS 15. As a refresher, Live Text allows you to highlight and select written or typed text from photos, interacting with it as you would in any other place inside the operating system.

One of the most impressive aspects of Live Text is its ability to interact with text in a video. Unlike previous versions, which could only select text within still images, Live Text now enables users to pause any video and engage with the text just like they would inside an image. This means that text in paused video frames can be copied, pasted, translated, and even looked up, all thanks to the power of Live Text.

This new feature works across various applications, including Photos, Camera, Safari, and more. Simply pause the frame of the video you want to interact with, touch and hold on a word, and use the two little blue markers to narrow or widen your selection. Pressing and holding will reveal options such as translating and copying text that appears in the photo or video.

In addition to these capabilities, Live Text now supports quick actions, which were first introduced in iOS 15. These quick actions allow users to track flights, packages, translate languages, and even convert currencies right from within a photo or video. For example, if you have a photo with a sign written in a foreign language, you may see the "Translate" quick action available for use.

Live Text can also be found inside the Translate app, thanks to a new camera button that opens the device's camera. This enables users to receive live translations in real-time for different languages, making it easier to communicate across cultural boundaries. Speaking of which, three new languages – Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian – are now available within Live Text.

Perhaps most excitingly, Live Text will soon work with Spotlight Search, allowing users to search for specific keywords within a photo or video frame and have the relevant information appear in their search results. This is a feature that was demonstrated by the creator of this video, who used it to find a picture of his vaccine card using just the keywords "vaccine" and "card".

As with any new feature, we'd love to hear your thoughts on Live Text and how you're using it. What do you think about these improvements in iOS 16? Are there any features or applications that you think would benefit from this technology? Share your experiences and opinions with us in the comments below.

That's all for today's video – thanks so much for watching, and we hope to see you around in the next one!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enlive text which was a new feature added back in ios 15 has received some pretty useful improvements in ios 16. and so in this video we're going to briefly go over what's new with live text in ios 16. if you need a refresher live text is designed to let you highlight and select written or type text from photos interacting with it as you would text in any other place inside of the operating system it's actually pretty crazy that you can kind of write down a phone number in the notes app or an email or if that's inside of a photo you can long press on either one and make a call or compose a new email one of the major new additions with livetext is the ability to do that within a video rather than just being able to select text inside of photos you can actually pause any video and interact with the text like you would inside of an image so this means that text in any paused video frame can be copied pasted translated plus it works with lookup live text works across the operating system in photos camera safari and even other applications so again if you want to copy text just pause the frame of the video that you want and then touch and hold on a word you can grab the two little blue markers to narrow or widen your selection and then you can press and hold to get options like translate and copy text that is in a photo or video also supports quick actions something that apple added in ios 15. so now in ios 16 there are new quick actions that let you track flights track packages translate languages and even convert currencies right from a photo or video if you have a photo with a sign in a foreign language for example you might see the translate quick action available live text can also be found inside of the translate app as there's a new camera button that opens the device's camera so that you can get live translations in real time for different languages and speaking of different languages there's now three new languages including japanese korean and ukrainian and lastly in ios 16 live text will work with spotlight search so for example if you are looking for text in a photo or video frame you can actually just search for that keyword and you'll see it pop up inside of spotlight search which is actually something that i did last week without even really realizing it i was looking for a picture of my vaccine card that i took and i just typed in the keywords and it actually showed me the picture because it read the text inside of the picture and then was smart enough to bring it up in spotlight search which is a fantastic feature that worked perfectly when i needed it to and of course i would love to know your thoughts on live text and how you're using it and what you think about these new features from ios 16 in the comments down below this has been dan with macrumers thanks so much for watching and i hope to see you around in the next videolive text which was a new feature added back in ios 15 has received some pretty useful improvements in ios 16. and so in this video we're going to briefly go over what's new with live text in ios 16. if you need a refresher live text is designed to let you highlight and select written or type text from photos interacting with it as you would text in any other place inside of the operating system it's actually pretty crazy that you can kind of write down a phone number in the notes app or an email or if that's inside of a photo you can long press on either one and make a call or compose a new email one of the major new additions with livetext is the ability to do that within a video rather than just being able to select text inside of photos you can actually pause any video and interact with the text like you would inside of an image so this means that text in any paused video frame can be copied pasted translated plus it works with lookup live text works across the operating system in photos camera safari and even other applications so again if you want to copy text just pause the frame of the video that you want and then touch and hold on a word you can grab the two little blue markers to narrow or widen your selection and then you can press and hold to get options like translate and copy text that is in a photo or video also supports quick actions something that apple added in ios 15. so now in ios 16 there are new quick actions that let you track flights track packages translate languages and even convert currencies right from a photo or video if you have a photo with a sign in a foreign language for example you might see the translate quick action available live text can also be found inside of the translate app as there's a new camera button that opens the device's camera so that you can get live translations in real time for different languages and speaking of different languages there's now three new languages including japanese korean and ukrainian and lastly in ios 16 live text will work with spotlight search so for example if you are looking for text in a photo or video frame you can actually just search for that keyword and you'll see it pop up inside of spotlight search which is actually something that i did last week without even really realizing it i was looking for a picture of my vaccine card that i took and i just typed in the keywords and it actually showed me the picture because it read the text inside of the picture and then was smart enough to bring it up in spotlight search which is a fantastic feature that worked perfectly when i needed it to and of course i would love to know your thoughts on live text and how you're using it and what you think about these new features from ios 16 in the comments down below this has been dan with macrumers thanks so much for watching and i hope to see you around in the next video\n"