To do searches within photo stored oniPhones it is one of the coolest features offered by iOS. Of course, to do it effectively. Saving us minutes and minutes lost scrolling through galleries that now contain tens of thousands of shots.
Images can be processed in various ways: they can among other things be search starting from the text they possibly contain and, always with functionality Active text enabled, the words and phrases within them can be copied, pasted, shared, translated or use for one search online.
Prerequisite is of course enable Live Text which allows you to «read» the text present in the shots. This is one of the most recent innovations such as the one that allows you to cut out the subjects of a photo to make stickers or the simple visual search (the one that, by writing “dog” and any attributes, returns us all the photos with quadrupeds).
The feature is activated from the Settings, then accessing the section generalschoosing Language and Area and still scrolling down to find the entry Active textturning on the switch. This operation can be done only on some iPhone models, basically from the XR onwards and the second generation SE. This includes iPhone XS and XS Max and the families 11, 12, 13 and 14.
The search can be carried out either from the field «Search for», accessible from the screen that can be reached by scrolling to the right from the iPhone home, the one where the widgets are collected, or directly from the Photos app. The principle is the same, except for the foresight to write «photo» before the word of interest if you proceed in the first way. For example, «photo menu». If there are images that respond to that search we will see them as thumbnails, up to eight, scrolling within Search for. Or, in the app, we will simply see them already filtered.
Those that contain text, however, are only those collected in a sub-selection marked precisely by the text icon, a dashed frame with three dashes inside. By clicking on that result we will see, for example, the photos corresponding to our search but contain text. Ultimately, it is an enrichment of visual research.
In this case, as in the previous one, the photos selected by Apple’s artificial intelligence – which works even without a connection – will come out with the specific text the user is looking for highlighted. You can search for everything: a common name, a place, a specific brand, a road indication, any text that crosses your mind. Those texts present in the photos can be selected by holding your finger on them, selected, copied to the phone’s clipboard and pasted. But from that fragment you can also start to search online, translate the text in question, start a phone call from a number that may be present or something else.
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