![]() Whether it’s an embarrassing old flame or a painful memory of a deceased relative, there are all kinds of reasons you might not want somebody’s face to pop up unexpectedly alongside photos of your cats. ![]() Memories in the Photos app are great – until they dredge up a picture of someone you might not want to see. Or, if you’d rather see some pre-configured alternatives, simply swipe on your device’s screen to see what the Photos app has to offer! Block people from appearing The Music icon next door lets you change the background track by selecting an alternative from Apple Music. Tap the Memory Looks icon (which looks like three overlapping circles) to change the appearance of your movie using filters. You can now change the look and sound of your memory. Pause the movie, and tap the Memory Mixes icon in the lower-left corner. To edit a Memory Mix, head to the For You tab and tap on a pre-created memory. It’s easier to fine-tune the Photos app’s memories using Memory Mixes. Tapping this icon activates Visual Lookup – you’ll then be presented with Siri Knowledge about the item in your photograph, including Wikipedia information and links from the Web. When browsing the image, you might notice a new, blue icon appear in the bottom right. To use Visual Lookup, either shoot or find a photo of a point of interest, painting, or even a houseplant. Visual Lookup lets you find out more about an item, be it a landmark, painting, plant, or book, by adding valuable Siri Knowledge. Tapping Share is really helpful too – it lets you send the selected text onto a different app, like Messages, Mail, or Notes. Of course, if you’ve taken a photo of a phone number or URL, calling or opening the web page in Safari is as simple as tapping it! Multi-lingual writingĬhoosing Translate lets you switch between different languages using Apple’s onboard translation tools – it’s incredibly useful for menus while abroad. Without hitting the Live Text button, you can simply press and hold on a word to select it, and then drag the blue handles to expand the selection. Find a compatible image, tap the Live Text button in the bottom right, and you’re away.īut within Photos, there’s a secondary method that’s even easier. ![]() Luckily, the same process applies from the Photos app too. Maybe the text you want to grab isn’t right there in real life – it’s in a photo you’ve already taken. You can then tap and hold on a snippet of text and you’ll be able to Copy, Select All, Look up, Translate, or Share it using a pop-up menu – just the same way you’d highlight text anywhere else on your device. It will freeze and zoom in on the section of the image containing the text, When the yellow brackets are highlighting your chosen passage, tap the Live Text button in the bottom right of the viewfinder. You can pan around or change angle to focus on a different bit of text. When the app detects words, you’ll see subtle yellow brackets forming around whichever chunk of text is close to the middle of the shot. Open the Camera app and point the lens towards some text. To use Live Text, you’ll need a fairly recent device: it works with iPhone XS and later and any iPad released after 2018. If your device is compatible, scanning for text couldn’t be easier. Using Live Text, you can find a photograph of a storefront and call their number simply by tapping it. It can identify printed or handwritten text, phone numbers, URLs, and more from photos or even a live Camera feed. Live Text is an incredible feature that lets you interact with text in photos. In iOS 15 (and iPadOS 15), powerful new features, tweaks, and improvements have been made to the much-loved app, meaning it really is better than ever. Apple’s Photos app has gone from strength to strength.
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