This is why I always read the Applevis.com blog upon each release of iOS, iPadOS, or WatchOS. The live text feature came in iOS 15 last September. There is also a podcast by Thomas Donnville on the live text feature. You can read that blog post here: https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-releases-ios-15-ipados-15-bringing-focus-modes-live-text-enhancements-multitasking
I do not recall if older phones cannot perform the live text do to their chip limitation; but a call to Apple Accessibility would answer that. 1-877-204-3930 HTH, Richard “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin My web site: https://www.turner42.com > On Jul 27, 2022, at 4:43 AM, Christopher Chaltain <chalt...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > > I’m running the latest IOS on an iPhone 11. > > -- > Christopher (AKA CJ) > Chaltain at Outlook > > From: 'Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 3:01 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Playing with the camera app > > Chris, > I just tried this on my iPhone 8 running the latest iOS, and all I was told > about was faces. What phone and which iOS are you running? > Thanks, looks very interesting, Sandy > > Sent from The dark side of the moon > > > On 27 Jul 2022, at 01:10, Christopher Chaltain <chalt...@outlook.com> wrote: > > > This is probably old news to everyone, but I just stumbled across something, > and I’m so excited, I want to share. This is how clueless I am, but I was > looking for a screen recording I’d just done, and not knowing where else to > look, I brought up the camera app. While I was exploring the camera app, I > heard it announcing things like no people, keyboard, … I realized it was > telling me what was on my desk! After playing around, I found out that if you > move focus to the top to the view finder, the camera app will read text to > you and identify objects. I ran downstairs to show my wife, and I heard it > say “cat on a flat surface with a laptop and a glass with a beverage”. 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