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Philip Michaels

One of the best iPhone features just got better with iOS 17

iOS 17 running on iPhone

One of the best additions in iOS 16 was an update to Visual Look Up in which you could lift a subject out of a photo just by pressing the person or object. That feature gets a tweak in iOS 17, letting you select multiple objects in a photo that you can then paste into an email or chat. In other words, a great tool is getting even better.

As a reminder, Visual Look Up's lift and paste feature works with images saved in the Photos app, as well as photos in Safari or screenshots that you've captured. Once you've lifted something out of a photo, you can then place it into Messages, Notes, Mail and basically any other app you can paste things into. As of iOS 17, you can also turn those objects into stickers to be stored in the Stickers Drawer of the iOS 17 Messages app. (And yes, Live Photos can be turned into stickers as well, preserving any motion or movement.)

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