You can copy and paste text on your iPhone using the gestures, like pinching three fingers inward to copy, or outward to paste.

There are many ways to copy text that can't be easily selected, but few that are as simple and fast as Text Lens ($6)—a new Mac app by prolific developer Sindre Sorhus. Text Lens lets you select any ...

One of my favorite iPhone tricks, which I use all the time, is called Live Text. Apple introduced the feature in iOS 15, and it's available on iPhones as old as the iPhone XR/XS series. The name is ...

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 ...

Gboard now offers a Scan Text feature, allowing you to copy text from the real world. This is effectively a stripped-back version of Google Lens’s optical character recognition smarts. Gboard’s ...

There’s a lot to be excited about with the new iOS 15.4 update, like the ability to use Face ID with a mask on, the biting lip and 122 other new Emojis, and a new camera feature that lets you scan ...

Microsoft’s PowerToys has a new utility that lets you copy text from images: If someone sends you a picture of their business card or a screenshot of their bank account details, you can use PowerToys ...

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Every website is, at this point, a place to share screenshots from other websites. Reddit is full of pictures of Twitter and Facebook posts, for example, and those sites are full of pictures of Reddit ...

Apple has improved the ways you can quickly select, copy, and paste text, but the new gestures take some learning — especially if you regularly used the previous ones. Only, if you were used to how to ...

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 ...