Luckily, there’s a workaround use can use to copy any text (or tap any un-tappable phone numbers or addresses) on your screen. And, weirdly, it requires you to take a screenshot first.

You can also copy Live Text from your photos for making use of elsewhere. It's an incredibly simple, useful feature, and here's how it works in its simplest form.

However, Live Text is a little different from Google Lens in that you can use it in real time with your camera to select, copy and paste text, as the iPhone is trained to recognize useful information.

Stop typing the same phrases, addresses, and ID numbers over and over again on your mobile device. Try this trick with Gboard and SwiftKey to save time.

This guide with screenshots covers how to copy text from videos on Mac with macOS Ventura's expanded Live Text feature.

Live Text is a new feature on iPhones in iOS 15 that lets you copy and import text from photos you take or save onto your device.

Live Text allows you to use the text in an image. Here’s a look at how Live Text works on the Mac.

Easily copy and paste text between your Android phone and Mac using KDE Connect and Soduto, with seamless clipboard sync over the same Wi-Fi network.

Now available in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview, Phone Link can use OCR to extract text from a photo, but it only works with Android devices.