How can I find out how to scan a document using photo. I don’t seem to have the same options as what is indicated when I searched for instructio s

Trying to scan a document using my phone. Instructions state pressing certain buttons that I don’t have while in notes. My phone has been updated. Don’t know what I am missing

iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 14

Posted on Jun 28, 2021 1:42 PM

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Posted on Jun 28, 2021 2:02 PM

You aren’t the 1st to find this troublingly non-intuitive.


It’s in the “Notes” app.


Start a new note, then click the “camera” icon within the note editing window. (NOT the actual “Camera” app)


(“starting” a new note is THE step often overlooked)


Select scan document.


It will create a note which can be “sent” as a pdf.


Once you figure it out, it actually works reasonably well for digitizing documents to pdf “on the cheap.”

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Jun 28, 2021 2:02 PM in response to Lma62

You aren’t the 1st to find this troublingly non-intuitive.


It’s in the “Notes” app.


Start a new note, then click the “camera” icon within the note editing window. (NOT the actual “Camera” app)


(“starting” a new note is THE step often overlooked)


Select scan document.


It will create a note which can be “sent” as a pdf.


Once you figure it out, it actually works reasonably well for digitizing documents to pdf “on the cheap.”

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