APPLE is just days away from adding a brilliant hack that will save you time – and potentially money too.
It’s linked to Reminders, one of Apple’s most useful apps.
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The Reminders app allows you to quickly add notes to remember.
You can split these up into lists, like work or chores.
But one of the best uses is to create a shopping list that syncs across your Apple devices.
Better yet, you can even have this list shared with another iPhone owner – like a partner or housemate – so you can stay in sync.
Apple is making a big change to Reminders in the upcoming iOS 15.4 update.
Currently, when you want to add items to a shopping list, you have to do it manually.
That can be annoying at times, especially if you’re following a big recipe.
And if you want to add ingredient quantities, it can get really burdensome.
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But in iOS 15.4, Apple is directly integrated its Live Text scanning feature into Reminders.
Once the update goes live, there’ll be a new scanning option when you go to add an entry to the shopping list.
It will launch the camera and let you scan the text from a recipe – whether it’s in a book or on a computer screen.
Then it will instantly import those ingredients into your shopping list, including all of the amounts.
So if you’ve jotted down “flour” or “red wine vinegar”, you’ll know exactly how much you need once you’re at the grocery store.
That means you won’t accidentally end up buying too much of anything, because you know exactly what the recipe requires.
Over time, this could save you a bit of cash.
Of course, Apple’s Live Text feature is already available in the main camera app.
Live Text allows you to point your iPhone camera at a real world object and quickly copy and paste text on it onto your handset.
It could help you capture notes on a whiteboard at the end of a meeting or school class, or copy down a handwritten note of a family recipe.
Grab an object with text you want to scan and open the Camera app on your iPhone.
Point the camera at the object and then tap the indicator that appears in the lower right of your display. It looks like lines of text surrounded by a box.
When you tap it, the text jumps out on your display and you’re given the option, to copy, select, looks up, translate or share it.
You can copy and paste it into an email or Note, for instance, or share it with a friend over WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.
You can also use Live Text on photos already in your photo library.
Simply open a photo in the gallery app and tap and hold on a piece of text in the picture to select and highlight it.
iOS 15.4 is expected to launch in the coming days, likely by Friday, March 18.
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