We’ve all assumed that when we’re browsing the internet and find a page in a language we don’t know, Safari translates it for us. We also know that we can translate any text just by accessing the Translate app or just by selecting it. But And when we find a text in the real world?
There we also have our iPhone, because simply by focusing on a text with the camera of our phone, we can translate it. And now, in iOS 16, this translation is done by the same system
As simple as pointing the camera, nothing more
When it comes to translating text with our iPhone camera, iOS 16 gives us two options. Firstly, there’s the Translate app, which comes with all our phones. Using it to understand any text that we can take a picture of is as simple as opening it and entering the tab Camera. Then we just point and touch the shoot button, we will see that the translated text appears in front of us.
The other option is to use the Camera app directly, which is faster, which we will appreciate in many situations. For this we only have to open the camera app and focus on a text. We will notice that the system automatically detects the content and shows us the Live Text button in the lower right corner.
After touching this button, the text will be in front of us and will appear in the bottom left button
Details like these are very interesting when it comes to translating texts that we do not understand. The ease that our iPhone offers us to manage these translations on the fly is most interesting. Translations which, as we have just seen, in iOS 16 become much more comfortable to perform. Just focus on the camera and go.
