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0 pointscromka17d ago0 comments

For me it's all the above and lack of multiple-item clipboard. It's incredible how much time it saves on a phone...

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baby_souffle17d ago· 3 in thread

Did iOS ever get OCR based copy/paste?

Pixels have had it for years but I think it's in every android phone now; from the app switcher you can press and hold and the system will OCR the text and allow you to copy it.

Because so many things _still_ don't make that easy to do on mobile.

umpalumpaaa17d ago

It’s a system wide iOS feature and has been for a few years now

zzrrt17d ago

I don't think iOS has it from the app switcher, but pretty easy to take a screenshot and immediately select from it. (Or selecting from older screenshots or photos you open.)

noutella17d ago

Yes some of the best "AI" features Apple has implemented are related to picture search : you can describe what you want to find and it will consistently find it, even inside of videos with highlights or the moments you're looking for. Much less supposedly sexy than the SIRI AI / Apple Intelligence hype, but also much more useful

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