How to Explore People, Objects, Text, and Tables Within Images in More Detail With VoiceOver on iOS

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09/15/21 • -1 min

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us the improved image description capabilities for VoiceOver users.

Here’s how Apple describes this feature:

Building on recent updates that brought Image Descriptions to VoiceOver, users can now explore even more details about the people, text, table data, and other objects within images. Users can navigate a photo of a receipt like a table: by row and column, complete with table headers. VoiceOver can also describe a person’s position along with other objects within images — so people can relive memories in detail, and with Markup, users can add their own image descriptions to personalize family photos.

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us the improved image description capabilities for VoiceOver users.

Here’s how Apple describes this feature:

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How to Use Live Text on iOS to Extract Text From the Camera and Photos App

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us Live Text, a feature that allows you to quickly recognize text and select, copy, paste, and lookup in both the Camera and Photos app.

Here’s how Apple describes Live Text:

Live Text uses on-device intelligence to recognize text in a photo and allow users to take action. For example, users can search for and locate the picture of a handwritten family recipe, or capture a phone number from a storefront with the option to place a call. With the power of the Apple Neural Engine, the Camera app can also quickly recognize and copy text in the moment, such as the Wi-Fi password displayed at a local coffee shop. With Visual Look Up, users can learn more about popular art and landmarks around the world, plants and flowers found in nature, breeds of pets, and even find books.

Live Text is only available on devices which have an A12 Bionic chip or better. These are:

iPhone XS
iPhone XS Max
iPhone XR
iPhone 11
iPhone 11 Pro
iPhone 11 Pro Max
iPhone 12 mini
iPhone 12
iPhone 12 Pro
iPhone 12 Pro Max
iPhone SE (2020)
iPad Air 3rd generation
iPad mini 5th generation
11-inch iPad Pro (2018 and later)
12.9-inch iPad Pro (2018 and later)
iPad 8th generation
iPad Air 4th generation
iPad Pro (2021)

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How to Use Background Sounds on iOS to Minimize Distractions and Help Focus, Stay Calm, or Rest

In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us Background Sounds.

Apple says that “everyday sounds can be distracting, discomforting, or overwhelming,” so in support of neurodiversity it is introducing new background sounds in iOS 15.

According to Apple this is how background sounds will help minimize distractions and help users focus, stay calm, or rest:

Balanced, bright, or dark noise, as well as ocean, rain, or stream sounds continuously play in the background to mask unwanted environmental or external noise, and the sounds mix into or duck under other audio and system sounds.