Show Notes
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
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