Technologies

How To Pull the Subject From a Photo in Safari on Your iPhone or iPad

This feature makes it easy to lift the subject from a photo in Safari and paste it wherever you like.

Despite all of the new features iOS 17 and iOS 18 have brought to the table, iOS 16 still stands tall as one of the most jam-packed releases ever, with features you probably still interact with daily.

iOS 16 introduced some bangers: the revamped lockscreen, editing and unsending messages, live activities and more. One sleeper feature was an upgrade to iOS 15’s Visual Lookup, which would identify subjects in your photos and allow you to pull them out and share them, background-free.

iOS 16 expanded on Visual Lookup by allowing you to pull the subjects from photos from websites — as long as you were using Safari. If you were unaware that you could do this or just need a refresher, we’re going to lay it all out for you below.

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How to clip images in Safari on iOS or iPad OS

In the Safari web browser on your iPhone or iPad, find any image and press your finger down on it for about a second. The image should isolate under your finger, and a quick action menu will appear, with various options. Now, the one you want to use is Copy Subject, which will copy the subject of the photo to your clipboard.

Unfortunately, you can’t control which subject is selected, so choose a photo with a clearly differentiated subject and background. (In the photo above, I chose to use this feature with a skateboarder in the forefront.)

After you press Copy Subject, you can go into a message and paste in the clipped subject to share it with someone else. You can also drop it into a saved note to keep the clipped subject for yourself. The clipping won’t always be perfect, so as mentioned, select an image with a large and obvious subject, and preferably an image with a uniform background.

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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, April 19

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for April 19.

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword looked daunting, with those extra Saturday clues the puzzle has every week. But I found the clues pretty easy, and 1-Across even put a familiar childhood song in my head. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times’ games collection. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword

Let’s get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Subject of a song that ends «Next time won’t you sing with me?»
Answer: ABCS

5A clue: Play at a loud volume
Answer: BLARE

6A clue: Totally convinced of
Answer: SOLDON

7A clue: It wrote this clue: «Virtual assistant with the gift of gab (4, 3). Let me know if you’d like any tweaks!»
Answer: CHATGPT

8A clue: Mascara targets
Answer: LASHES

9A clue: Place to make a lifelong promise
Answer: ALTAR

10A clue: Best coast for sunsets
Answer: WEST

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: The whole package, so to speak
Answer: ALLTHAT

2D clue: Honey ___, animal that «don’t care» in a meme
Answer: BADGER

3D clue: Makes smaller, as a photo
Answer: CROPS

4D clue: Like emails you can’t take back
Answer: SENT

5D clue: Acts like a braggart
Answer: BOASTS

6D clue: Rock that easily fractures
Answer: SHALE

7D clue: Grabber of stuffed animals in an arcade
Answer: CLAW

How to play more Mini Crosswords

The New York Times Games section offers a large number of online games, but only some of them are free for all to play. You can play the current day’s Mini Crossword for free, but you’ll need a subscription to the Times Games section to play older puzzles from the archives.