OK, I admit it. I’m a sucker for the latest gadget. I bought a smart notebook with all the upgrades to write my daily to-do lists digitally. Yeah, $600 later, I’ve used it 11 times. It’s easy to waste ...

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. As much as it’s now fairly easy to type quickly on touchscreen ...

Copying text from photos on your iPhone? iOS 15's newest feature, Live Text, could do just that. The beta of the iOS 15 has finally become available to the public. As such, iPhone users like you may ...

There's also the Mac clipboard, though you'll need a separate app if you want to look back through your clipboard history. Reading time 3 minutes Get ready for the two keyboard shortcuts you’ll get ...

If you need to quickly share a message with a friend or family member, copy and paste instructions or directions, or copy a link from another message, you can do this pretty easily on any of the best ...

We’re in 2022, so grabbing text from a website or a document should be pretty easy, right? But that’s not always the case. There might be part of a site that doesn’t easily let you copy some text, or ...

There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac. If ...

In macOS Monterey, Apple introduced a feature called Live Text that can automatically recognize text when it appears in an image in Safari, Photos, Preview, Quick Look, and elsewhere, allowing you to ...

Let’s say you take a photo of a paragraph from your favorite book and you want to share a quote with a friend. Before, the easiest way to do that was to highlight the text and send the image. But with ...

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Live Text was introduced as a new feature in macOS Monterey, and it allows you to use the text in an image. It’s a feature that’s quite helpful—for example, if you’ve ever been in a meeting or lecture ...