Tangential but once in a blue moon I come by some situation where I’m on my phone and I’m looking at something that has a QR code showing on the screen of the phone itself.
And so I do something silly like airdropping a screenshot of it to my laptop so I can scan it with my phone camera, or I get someone else (friends, family) to use their phone to scan the code from my phone screen with the camera app on their phone.
And all this time I was annoyed why I couldn’t just get the link directly from the image on my phone without involving another device, and without having to install yet another third-party app.
And today I learned that all I had to do was long press the QR code in the screenshot in my camera roll and it would actually parse it and make it so I could visit the link!
I think I must have tried long pressing QR code in an image in the camera roll years ago because it always seemed like something that would make sense to support via long press. Maybe they introduced this feature after I had tried to long press a QR code in an image in the past. Or maybe it was always possible and I didn’t actually ever try to long press it. Or maybe I long pressed the wrong part of the image that first one or two times I ever tried to do it in the past. Either way, very happy to have learned that this is actually possible.
And so I do something silly like airdropping a screenshot of it to my laptop so I can scan it with my phone camera, or I get someone else (friends, family) to use their phone to scan the code from my phone screen with the camera app on their phone.
And all this time I was annoyed why I couldn’t just get the link directly from the image on my phone without involving another device, and without having to install yet another third-party app.
And today I learned that all I had to do was long press the QR code in the screenshot in my camera roll and it would actually parse it and make it so I could visit the link!
I think I must have tried long pressing QR code in an image in the camera roll years ago because it always seemed like something that would make sense to support via long press. Maybe they introduced this feature after I had tried to long press a QR code in an image in the past. Or maybe it was always possible and I didn’t actually ever try to long press it. Or maybe I long pressed the wrong part of the image that first one or two times I ever tried to do it in the past. Either way, very happy to have learned that this is actually possible.