A Demonstration and Walk-Through of the New Live Recognition Features in iOS 27

<p>In this podcast, Levi Gobin demonstrates the new Live Recognition capabilities in iOS 27.</p><h3>Transcript</h3><p>Disclaimer: This transcript was generated using Google Gemini, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool. It was lightly edited and formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.</p><p>Announcer: You're listening to another AppleVis podcast.

Levi Gobin: Hello, everyone, and in this podcast, I'm going to be demonstrating the new features for Live Recognition and Magnifier in iOS 27. So the first big new feature is the fact that you can now ask Magnifier a question, and it will use Apple Intelligence to describe the scene. And you can access this from either the rotor or a VoiceOver gesture, or from the Magnifier app itself. I will be discussing all of these today. So I'm going to go ahead and unlock my phone.

VoiceOver: 12:34, 98% charged. Levi's iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Levi Gobin: Okay, it's reading my battery widget. And I'm going to now navigate to the the Live Recognition rotor and swipe down to Ask.

VoiceOver: Characters. Actions, activate. Image Recognition, item. Text Navigation. L, Live Recognition, Ask, off.

Levi Gobin: And I'm already on it. Um and now I'm going to double tap, and it will bring up the Ask flow like this.

VoiceOver: Close. Question, text field, is editing, Ask, insertion point at start.

Levi Gobin: Okay, and so now it puts me in a text field where I can type, but first I'm going to explore the interface and show you what else is here.

VoiceOver: Close Transcript, button.

Levi Gobin: So, a button to close the transcript, which will take you back to the Live Recognition area.

VoiceOver: Ask, heading. Close Live Recognition, button. Question, text field, is editing, Ask, insertion point at start. Ask, dimmed, button. Hi, button.

Levi Gobin: And uh that's all you have. So I can then type in a question.