Use Live Text with your iPhone camera
Camera can copy, share, look up, and translate text that appears within the camera frame. Camera also provides quick actions to easily call phone numbers, visit websites, convert currencies, and more, based on the text that appears in the frame.
Open Camera, then position iPhone so the text appears within the camera frame.
After the yellow frame appears around detected text, tap
, then do any of the following:
Copy: Copy text to paste into another app such as Notes or Messages.
Select All: Select all the text within the frame.
Look Up: Show personalized web suggestions.
Translate: Translate text.
Search the web: Look up the selected text on the web.
Share: Share text using AirDrop, Messages, Mail, or other available options.
Note: You can also touch and hold the text, then use the grab points to select specific text and perform the actions above.
Tap a quick action at the bottom of the screen to do things like make a phone call, visit a website, start an email, convert currencies, and more.
Tap
to return to Camera.
To turn off Live Text on your iPhone camera, go to Settings > Camera, then turn off Show Detected Text.
Note: Live Text isn’t available in all regions or languages. See the iOS and iPadOS Feature Availability website.