What I love about Gary is that despite I know how to do most of the things he shows but I know that I’ll always learn something new in the videos. Great content!

Perfect timing for this to pop up in my recommended videos! I need to scan tax documents for our tax preparer, and you made it easy!

As an Old, I recognize fellow Olds as we are the only ones who worry about file size.

I had no idea this existed. In fact, I was contemplating buying a scanner ‘just in case.’ I’ll keep this in mind when I need to scan something. My needs are generally very basic and simple (like needing to scan a page or two). This will definitely suffice. Thanks for all you do, Prof.

BRILLIANT YET AGAIN! I pay all this money for Apple, but barely know half the potential functions. Thanks to Gary, I am getting more bang for my buck!

This is really handy. I never knew it could do this. This is going to save a fair bit of time now. Cheers!

Thats a very useful feature, did not know it existed. Thanks for sharing Gary

Gary, as always, is clear and TTP-to The Point. This was very helpful when scanning in a few documents. My main usage will be with composing new emails with attachments.

I've been scanning from my phone for a few years, but have now learned about Continuity, which is very cool.

Thanks Gary. Incredible feature that will cause me to donate my flatbed scanner. ( much better than the three-step Photo Xfer from iPhone to Mac. Boy, theres a long era that's come to an end. I've bought scanners for 40 yrs.

Gary is such a treasure. Who knew yo could do this!!?

Too bad it’s has those black border lines when scanning….extra tedious step to crop it out. But still a handy feature. Thanks for this video!

Awesome tips. Thank you!

Thanks very much, Gary, for this informative video! This is fantastic 👍

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

Really loving this. Here I was going to buy a scanner and looking at reviews when I found your page, so Big Thanks. At first it didn't work, got error msg after my iPhone took the scan and/or said it timed out. So I updated to iOS 17.5 and voila. Thx so much from Vancouver, Canada, Jul. 2024, MacMost (trying to digitize all my lesson plans and years of forgotten papers) ~

Now that's cool. Gary, you often surprise me. I've been a Mac user for 25 years and an iPhone user since they first came out, and I was still using an app for scanning on my phone and sending it to my Mac with AirDrop. Thanks.

I've been scanning into my iPhone for a few years now but figured I could learn more from you, boy was I right! Man you once again completely opened my eyes to a MUCH better way to doing something I do almost daily. Thank you!

Ya learn something new everyday! My husband will love this tip. Thanks for sharing.

Really enjoy and learn from your time (and frustration) saving Tips! Thank You

Fantastic tip Sir! I never knew that I could do this with my iPhone or iPad. I'm in the market for a new combo printer so this just might save me some extra bucks! Keep up all of your excellent work!

I ALWAYS find something USEFUL and new in ALL your shows. Thanks a lot.

Another useful minitutorial for us. Not too complicated but shiny as usual. Thanks a lot, Gary!

Thank you sir! I learn something new from you at least once a week.....

Great info, thanks!

I've been scanning documents using your tip regarding Image Capture. This seems to be much easier. Just goes to show that I should start to look at some of the menus on my Mac. Thanks so much Gary. You are most helpful!

Thank you Gary. This is an amazing feature. You’re the Best!

Hi Gary, As always great info. Thanks Greg from RIo de Janeiro

Thank you this is the best quick short cut for scanning documents.

Wonderful tip

Super helpful information- thank you!

This came in so handy for me today! ......Thanks!

Cracking video, Gary, this is completely new for me. Thanks for alerting us to this really useful tool.

Really helpful ! Great Thanks!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Thanks for sharing this powerful tool Gary.

Thanks for this!

What a fantastic tip. Thank you

WOW - thanks...that was a great and very useful tip...so seamless...thanks Gary...

Really useful!

this is amazing

Gary, this was an awesome video. Cheers.

your channel is a gold mine! Keep going Gary !

Thanks

Wow, this is brilliant, I never knew! Thanks so much Gary - great content, brilliant presentation style 👍👌👏

Very helpful 😮

I use the Scannable app on iPhone. The PDF’s it makes look much better.

What a great tip. I often take a photo on my iphone & then use airdrop as had no idea you could save directly to my Mac. Same with scanned document. Thank you.

I have an older, but very good, Fujitsu ix500 scanner that I use for digitizing documents but this would be great for the occasional one-offs. I didn't even know this functionality existed. Thanks Gary!

I never knew that was something that could be done. Very handy i think. Thank you.

Brilliant!

Useful. Thanks.

incredibly handy Gary !!

Very useful tool!

I’ve been using Scanner Pro for a few years but I’m going to try this method now. I had no idea you could initiate a scan from a Mac.

wow that was great - well done

This channel is amazing

I'm learning a new trick!

Before your great tip I thought the Iphone needed to be connected via USB, or I Airdropped the scan, but this is much easier and you can put the scan directly where it is needed. Thank you so much!!

NIce !!! Thanks

wow... why have I never known this was an option? I have been doing things the hard way! Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Hello sir.... You are fetching us all to create a Apple's Ecosystem...❤

wow that's cool

Great!

I've actually been using this for a while but have never noticed the sketch option. I've just updated to a Mac Studio with macOS 14.4.1 so maybe the sketch option wasn't available on my older 27" iMac

As always, great video Gary - stuff I never knew - thanks. Question in the spirit of cross device scanning: is there any OCR function on the Mac end of this process - taking handwriting to text, say?

I prefer Adobe Scan for scanning of work documents. The results are uploaded directly to the Adobe Cloud and my scans never look blue, as they usually do with my iPhone. Plus, Adobe Scan does a MUCH better job of handling multipage documents and doesn't take random auto shots of whatever you happen to be pointing at, like the iPhone scan function does.

Nothing happened if I right-clicked or control-click - no menu invited me to scan..No problem, the initiate scan-in-iPhone worked and out came the document I had photographed from iPhone.

Always looking forward to your regular lessons, Gary and never depart unimpressed. How would you rate the quality of a conventionally scanned document against images taken by an iPhone/iPad*. I have yet to purchase one of these devices*, still using a conventional and large desk scanner. Thanks Gary.

This is a really cool function! I could use it in my garden--I get bugs, and need to scan pics of them into my records; along with technical advice of getting rid of them. However, I am using Sonoma 14.5, on a MacBook Air, And it seems to be a 2024. Anywho, I didn't see the menu popup when I two-finger clicked in Finder as you said to do. I tried Command click, and same thing. What am I doing wrong? Do I have an unsupported version of something? thanks for your videos; always helpful! :)

I wish I had seen this yesterday when I had to scan a copy of my signature and 'sign' a document.

Well well. I never knew that. I’d always been saving in photos and transferring. Duh 🙄 So useful. Such a wonderfully clear and measured video. I often, though, just want the ‘live’ text going into pages or notes. And was waiting / hoping that you’d discovered a scan to text with iPhone? Any suggestions?? Big thanks again …. Have a good weekend.

Very good feature. I like how you show multiple ways to use the feature. Quick, but dumb question. I use list view in Finder and sometimes I cannot find any white space when I want to use the context menu. Am I missing something simple?

Amazing video. So clear, to the point. Can show how to add a network printer to a Mac?

Gary, can I use this to scan to text? I know I can do that in Notes

Have recently done this; I didn't realise you could turn off the auto scan, which can be a bit fast especially with the phone fixed in place and moving pages to scan into frame, (I tried making a home made scanner, based on units that can be found on line, but it didn't work well as the angle of the camera and the page must be the same as the depth of focus is very narrow), and got lots of duplicate scans or scans of document with my hand in the way.

I just found out there is a menu to reduce file size, wow

Great tips! I like this function but is there an automatic setting wherein it will automatically compensate to exclude the part of the photo/scan view that is beyond a page and send it as an already cropped/framed document page, eg. letter, business card, receipt (without that black border and curved page edge)? I use an app in my iphone called TurboScan that automatically excludes the surrounding area and crops it to the designated page dimensions (eg. letter, business card, etc., as set up in settings). I can also edit the framing. But in this case the file is saved in the phone so I would have to manually transfer it to my MacBook.

Great tip. Is there a way to set manual scanning as default? Google doesn't give any relevant answers. I've learned so much from you. Thank you. ✌✌

Hello Gary, when I make double-click on a file in documents, so option in the context menu "Import from iPhone or iPad" is missing. I have Mac with Sonoma and iPhone 7 on same wi-fi. Could you please advise me? Thank you

awesome. what about scanning pages from a book? If it's a dictionary for example, it doesn't come out right. cropping the corners helps, but doesn't account for the curvature of the page. is apple working on this, or is there an AI scanner app that automatically fixes this? thanks

Do you have any videos on how to make wifi calls from a phone(Samsung)?

Gary I love your videos but I can't get this to work consistently. I used my iphone with much success, but when I tried it again I got a device timeout message on the Mac. So I tried my iPad and it seemed to work but the file never showed up in the finder. I tried again but got another device timeout message. I guess I am SOL.

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It seems that the text is an image not a editable pdf. Want to edit the text

iPhone12 doesn't work on this? The contents of the document are not read. It will go into camera mode instead.

I tried this with notes but the menu option is grayed out. Tried with Mail and it worked but only with one shot. Tried to add another but the menu option was grayed out again. Advice?

I have a iPhone XR and a MAC Studio both with latest sw and I get the error message on the iPhone that MAC Studio not supported. So the iPhone does see it but the MAC Stuido does not list the iPhone in the bluetooth as being available.

These options DO NOT appear when I try and insert into a WORD document.

I have the latest 24-inch Imac M3 and it says that my Mac is not compatible? running the latest version of Samona

I cannot get my iphone to link to my MacBook Air although my iphone is listed on my MacBook's list of Bluetooth devices. As a consequence I cannot get Continuity Camera to work. As far as I can see I do meet all the criteria for Continuity Camera. Can anyone help, please?

I'm not seeing that option. My guess is one must be logged in to some Apple service for this to work.

Tried so many times. That's a fail.