The instagram app is infuriating for this. What possible reason is there for not allowing the user to select text in captions? I just want to put it into google translate so I can get a non-garbage translation of foreign language captions, or look something up on wikipedia, or paste a name in to my contacts, or...
So the workaround on android is to long press the bottom bar, send the screen off to gemini to OCR it, it'll recognise it's foreign language and then translate it for you. What a complete waste of time! You've got these remarkable LLM capabilities at your fingertips, and we're forced to burn energy working around these asinine restrictions for something as simple, as universal and as well understood as copying text.
So the workaround on android is to long press the bottom bar, send the screen off to gemini to OCR it, it'll recognise it's foreign language and then translate it for you. What a complete waste of time! You've got these remarkable LLM capabilities at your fingertips, and we're forced to burn energy working around these asinine restrictions for something as simple, as universal and as well understood as copying text.