Live Text in iOS 15/iPadOS 15 lets your iPhone or iPad turn text on objects viewed in the Camera app into something you can copy and paste almost instantly. Apple also offers other kinds of content identifiers, one of the most useful of which is a phone number.

With an iPhone XS/XR or later, or a reasonably new iPad (see list), do the following:

1. In the Camera app, hover over any text on a printed object or display that contains a phone number.
2. When rounded yellow-orange corners surround the text in question, tap Living text a button that looks like text inside rounded corners.
3. A gray line will be underlined under the phone number. Touch it.
4. In the menu that appears, tap Call [phone number] if the number is correct.

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