With Live Text on an iPhone, iPad or Mac, you can highlight text in images to easily copy and paste important information from photos and screenshots. While this is often useful, it can also be annoying. If the live text is not useful for you, you can turn it off as well. Here’s how to do it on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
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Why you might want to turn off Live Text
Live Text is a feature built into macOS Monterey, iOS 15, and iPadOS 15. It uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to recognize text in images.
There are many things you can do with Live Text on your iPhone. You can use it to make calls, instantly translate text recognized on your camera, or look up directions with just a tap. Likewise, you can do many things with Live Text on a Mac, including instantly copy and look up meanings and translations of recognized words.
However, live text can get annoying at times. For example if there is an image you want to enlarge with your iPhone or iPad. Instead of zooming in on the image when you double-tap, the Live Text feature steps in and instead highlights text detected in the image.
While this issue can be easily resolved by using the pinch-to-zoom feature instead, this is not possible if you’re using your device with one hand. A similar problem can occur on a Mac when trying to save images from the web or taking a photo of an object with text.
How to turn off Live Text on your iPhone or iPad
You can turn off Live Text entirely on your iPhone or iPad, or simply disable the feature when using the Camera app. To disable it completely on your iPhone or iPad:
- Go to Settings > General.
- tap Language & Region.
- Turn off live text.
If you only want to turn off the feature when you’re using your iPhone or iPad’s camera, here’s what you need to do:
- Go to Settings > Camera.
- Turn off the switch next to it Show recognized text. That this won’t show up if you’ve already disabled the Live Text feature.
How to Disable Live Text on Your Mac
With Live Text, you can instantly recognize text on images in Preview, Quick View, Photos, and Safari. As with iPhones and iPads, you can disable the feature on your Mac as well. To disable the feature:
- Go to system settings.
- click Language & Region.
- By doing General Uncheck the box next to it Select text in images.
After that, you will no longer be able to select text in your images. You cannot see the text recognition icon and the context menu that allows you to look up or translate the text.
Enjoy your pictures without distractions
While live text is a handy feature, it can discourage you from interacting with your images in other ways. If you use a lot of text-based images, turning off the feature can save you a little more time.
The downside, however, is that you won’t be able to take advantage of the features the feature has to offer, such as B. the ability to search for images on Spotlight and instantly call a phone number from a saved screenshot.
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