How to Share an Image from Safari with VoiceOver?

By mahmood, 6 July, 2025

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to share an image from the Safari browser to another app using VoiceOver.
My issue is that when I find an image and perform a triple-tap (the standard gesture for a long press), VoiceOver activates the Live Text feature instead of opening the context menu for the image. It selects the text within the photo, and the Share Sheet only gives me the option to share the detected text, not the actual image file.
I've noticed that if I temporarily disable VoiceOver, I can sometimes successfully long-press on the image and get the correct menu to share it, but this is unreliable as it's difficult to find the exact location of the image without screen reader feedback.
Is there a reliable way with VoiceOver enabled to interact with an image in Safari to bring up the context menu and share the image itself, rather than activating Live Text? Any guidance or workaround would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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By mahmood on Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 19:50

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried the double-tap and hold gesture as you described. I do feel the haptic feedback, but unfortunately, the result is the same. It still activates Live Text and selects the text within the image, rather than bringing up the context menu to share the image itself.
It seems VoiceOver is prioritizing text recognition over the image element itself. Does anyone else have a different method that might work?

By Tara on Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 21:13

Hi,
Go to VoiceOver's settings, and then Voiceover Recognition, and then Live Recognition. Scenes, Point & Speak and text are selected by default. Deselect the one you don't want, in this case 'text', or deselect all of them if you think that might help. Just reenable them again when you know you want to use live recognition. You could maybe set up a VoiceOver activity for Safari, and you could deselect the different live recognition options just for Safari.