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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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So back in the day you could hold home to pull up Google assistant and tell it to translate whatever was on your screen. No matter what app, browser, etc it just worked. I have no idea why they ever got rid of it. Now with the modern version of tap to translate text has to be highlight-able in order to be translated, which is a bone headed decision. It's like they never use the stuff they make.
Thinking on this, you should be able to take a screenshot and use the camera featiin Google translate. It translates text on images (inheritantly not highlightable) so you should be good.
You can also slide up from the bottom of the screen to get to the task switcher UI, and there's a button allowing you to select text (even from an image with text in it) and then get a translation of it. IMO, this is even better than it used to be for getting translations because it works with nearly everything except certain financial apps.
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