Month: June 2022

 When you download and use an app on your iPhone for the first time, you may be bombarded with prompts asking for permission to access other features on your phone. If you’re like me and just want a new app to run, you’ve probably hit “Allow”, which gives the app access to additional information about yourself and your closest people more often than you’d like to admit need more.

By granting access to this information, these apps may share your data with digital marketing and advertising technology companies without your knowledge. Even if you originally granted certain permissions to third-party iPhone apps, you can easily revoke them at any time. This is to know.

How to change third-party app permissions

Here’s how to change permissions in iOS 15 and later:

1. Tap Settings on your iPhone.

2. Click Privacy.

In the privacy menu, you can select features like Contacts, Photos, and Camera to see which third-party apps have requested permission to access this information. Tapping on a contact may reveal the names and numbers of people in the contacts list that the Notes app has access to. You can stop access by clicking the slider next to these apps.

More in the privacy menu

In addition to revoking app permissions in the Privacy menu, you can customize which apps have access to your location data. If you tap Location Services near the top of the menu, you can turn these services on or off for all or some of the apps on your phone. You can also tap the Share My Location menu to enable or disable Find My iPhone, and who to share your location with.

There is also an option in the privacy menu called Apple Advertising. Click this button to view Apple’s ad targeting information and turn these personalized ads on or off. Apple says turning off personalized ads will make the ads you see in the App Store, Apple News, and Stocks less relevant to you, but likely not reduce the number of ads you see in those apps.

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 You can digitize recipes, handwritten notes, and more with this iPhone trick. There’s a better way to digitize handwritten notes, old family recipes, or any other hard-paper copy that might exist. The iPhone has a feature called Live Text that can quickly digitize notes (and anything else).

Live Text is a computer vision-based tool that lets your iPhone use its camera to copy and paste photos from text, among other features. It was announced at Apple’s virtual WWDC 2021 and is one of the features available in Apple’s iOS 15.

Copying and pasting text from images is not new to smartphones. With Google Lens, Android users may already be familiar with this feature, but for the tens of millions of people who use an iPhone, you’ll need iOS 15 or later to use it. Live Text is a little different from Google Lens in that you can use it to select, copy, and paste text in real-time from your camera because your iPhone is trained to recognize useful information. As I said before, it’s a useful productivity tool for copying handwritten notes or text from images and then digitizing them.

Live Text: Here’s how to copy and paste text from photos

1. Make sure your iPhone has iOS 15 installed.

2. Point the camera at the object with any text you want to copy. You’ll know Live Text is on as soon as you see a yellow outline around the text.

3. Click the live text icon in the lower right corner of the image to interact with any text in the frame.

4. Press to select text to copy as in a note or text message.

5. Click Copy.

6. Paste this text into another application, such as Gmail or Notes.

Much like Google Lens, Live Text can also search for text in images stored in the Photos app. For example, if there is a phone number in the image, you can click on it to dial that number, or if there is a French word, you can translate it to English.

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