Live Text in Photos

Another incredible iOS 15 feature that’s coming to M1 Macs in macOS 12 is Live Text in Photos, which will allow you to search for and extract text from any image on your computer, whether that’s a ten-year-old image in your Photo library or just something you’re browsing past on Safari.

While this kind of optical character recognition isn’t at all new, the fact that Apple is doing it all directly on the device most certainly is.

Other services have relied on powerful cloud server farms to do the heavy lifting, so it’s a feat that obviously requires a fair amount of bit crunching to pull off — and a testament to the astonishing power of Apple Silicon.