You can find a full list of the languages available on Apple’s iOS and iPadOS Feature Availability page.

One limitation to bear in mind is that, at the moment, Live Text is only available for a relatively small number of languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese.

Here are the models that can use the feature: return text Using Translation with glossaries After extracting text from an image, use Translation glossaries to personalize the translation of the extracted text. Live Text is also available on some iPads, which again need to be running iPadOS 15 or later. Live Text is available on a wide range of iPhones: the key thing is that they need to be running iOS 15 (or later). You can hold your camera up to text to translate it in real-time, snap a picture to manually select text, or open an old picture from your gallery. Which iPhones have the Live Text feature? 1.Launch the Photos app on an iPhone or iPad running iOS 15, then select a photo in your library that contains text in a language that you want to translate. Open Google Translate, pick the language you want to translate your picture into, and then tap the Camera button.

You may also find How to translate webpages useful. This app allows you to translate text, photos, camera, web pages. You can read more about the feature in our how to use Live Text tutorial. We also cover how to use Translate on the iPhone and How to translate text and speech on iPhone. Translator for camera, text, voice, photos and web pages.

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