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Apple’s Live Text feature is no longer exclusive to M1-chip devices and will now be available to “all Mac computers that support macOS Monterey.”
According to the macOS Monterey 12 Beta 4 release notes, the live text feature will now work on all computers that can run the updated OS software, including Intel-based Macs that have previously been unable to access it.
As per Apple’s preview page, macOS Monterey officially runs on devices as old as the late 2013 Mac Pro. So theoretically, you should be able to access the live text feature on most recent Mac purchases – provided you’re not still somehow running the iconic unibody polycarbonate MacBook, which was discontinued back in 2011.
Live Text is no longer an M1-exclusive in Apple’s newest macOS Monterey beta
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Apple is expanding which devices can use one of its previously M1-chip exclusive features in the fourth macOS Monterey beta. Live Text, the company’s new image scanning and text identifying feature, now runs on “all Mac computers that support macOS Monterey,” according to new documentation Apple released. As tech video creator Rene Ritchie notes, that should mean Intel-based Macs. One user claims to have gotten it to work on a Mac Pro from 2008.
Live Text digitizes the text found in photos, allowing for smart features like making information like phone numbers and addresses searchable and interactive in Apple Photos and the Camera app. The new feature was one of several macOS Monterey highlights that Apple limited to its newer MacBook Airs, Pros, and iMacs, marking the company’s first real break in functionality between Macs running its custom-designed chips and t