Copying and pasting from text messages on the iPhone has always been a bit of a pain. For so long, the only way to do it was ...

With the help of Microsoft's SwiftKey keyboard app, you can copy and paste items between a PC and Android device. If you have a Samsung phone, try the Link to Windows app. Lance is an experienced ...

There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac. If ...

There are many ways to copy text that can't be easily selected, but few that are as simple and fast as Text Lens ($6)—a new Mac app by prolific developer Sindre Sorhus. Text Lens lets you select any ...

Live Text lets you grab text from photos and videos to make phone calls, send emails, translate languages, and run web searches. Visual Lookup allows you to copy and paste images. Introduced in iOS 15 ...

In macOS Ventura, Apple has expanded the reach of its Live Text feature, which can recognize text in not just photos, but also videos now, too. Keep reading to learn how to use it. In macOS Monterey, ...

It's possible to copy your screen on a Windows computer in two main ways. Here's what you need to know to do it.

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One of my favorite iPhone tricks, which I use all the time, is called Live Text. Apple introduced the feature in iOS 15, and it's available on iPhones as old as the iPhone XR/XS series. The name is ...

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In iOS 15, Apple has added a new feature called Live Text that can recognize text when it appears in your camera's viewfinder or in a photo you've taken and let you perform several actions with it.