How to copy text in a video with Live Text in iOS 16 Tom's Guide Skip to main content Tom's Guide is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's why you can trust us. How to copy text in a video with Live Text in iOS 16 By Philip Michaels published 13 July 2022 Live Text picks up a new trick in iOS 16 - here's how to grab text from a video (Image credit: Tom's Guide) Live Text is a phenomenal iOS feature that lets you pull text out of photos to copy into other documents. Those powers expand in iOS 16, as Live Text gains the power to pull text from video. There are some caveats, of course. The video has to be paused, and at this stage in the iOS 16 beta process, the text has to appear fairly prominently in the video. The feature also seems to be limited to the videos you've shot or ones you've found on Safari. Third-party video apps will likely need to be updated to work with Live Text's capture features. Still, even with the feature only available for some types of videos, it can come in handy - particularly because the iOS 16 version of Live Text surfaces action buttons for the text you capture. Words in other languages get a Translate button. Currencies get a conversion button. And phone numbers, website URLs and physical addresses enjoy action buttons of their own for calling, browsing, and looking up on Maps. Live Text in videos is pretty simple to use once you get the hang of it. Here's how to grab text in a video using Live Text. 1. Find a video with text in it and press play. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) 2. When you see the text you want to capture, pause the video. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) 3. Tap the Live Text button in the lower right corner of the screen. Relevant action buttons will appear. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) In this example, I can tap on a website URL, a phone number, or a translate button to find out that "diablo" means "devil." (Image credit: Tom's Guide) 4. If I want to copy text from the video I merely tap and hold on the text in question. A pop-up menu appears giving me the option of copying text. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) I don't always have to tap the text to copy it. In this example, using one of the videos that appears on Tom's Guide via the Safari browser on my iPhone, I was able to tap the three dots icon by the playback bar. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) That brought up a Show Text command highlighting the onscreen text. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) With the Copy All button, I could copy the on-screen text to paste in an app that accepts text. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) Capturing video in Live Text is one of the iOS 16 features that shows off the beefed-up intelligence features in Apple's software update. Visual Look Up gets an update too that allows you to lift a subject out of a photo and paste it into another app. The Haptic keyboard feedback may be the most underrated feature in iOS 16. Read our iOS 16 public beta hands-on to get our first impression of the software update. You can then download the iOS 16 public beta yourself to try out features like editing texts in Messages, customizing the iPhone's lock screen and setting up your iCloud Shared Photo Library.Today's best Apple MagSafe Battery Pack deals (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)$97.99 (opens in new tab)View Deal (opens in new tab)Low Stock (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)$97.99 (opens in new tab)View Deal (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)$99 (opens in new tab)View Deal (opens in new tab)Show More DealsWe check over 250 million products every day for the best prices Be In the Know Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Philip Michaels Philip Michaels is a Managing Editor at Tom's Guide. He's been covering personal technology since 1999 and was in the building when Steve Jobs showed off the iPhone for the first time. He's been evaluating smartphones since that first iPhone debuted in 2007, and he's been following phone carriers and smartphone plans since 2015. He has strong opinions about Apple, the Oakland Athletics, old movies and proper butchery techniques. Follow him at @PhilipMichaels. 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