How to Add Text to Photos on iPhone

Go to Markup Editor

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Open the Photos app on your iPhone. The app icon has a colored pinwheel in a white frame. You can find it on the Home screen.

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Open the photo you want to edit. You can open photos in Albums, Moments, Memories, or iCloud Photo Sharing.

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Click the Edit button. This button with the three sliders icon is on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

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Click the More button. This button is at the bottom right of the screen and has a three-dot icon in a circle.

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Click Markup . The toolbox icon is in the pop-up menu. The image will be opened in the Markup editor.

If you don't see the Markup option, you can tap More and slide the Markup switch to the On position. This switch will turn green.

Add text to photos

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Click the Text button. The T icon in this frame is on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. This button will add a text box to the image with some example text inside.

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Double-tap the example text. This allows you to edit and replace the example text in the text box.

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Enter text using the keyboard.

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Click the Done button on the keyboard. This button is different from the Done button in the upper right corner of the screen.

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Choose a color for the text. You can tap the color in the palette at the bottom of the screen to change the color of the text.

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Click the AA icon next to the palette. This button allows you to edit the font, size, and alignment of the text.

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Select font. You can choose between Helvetica, Georgia and Noteworthy.

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Change the text size. Slide the text size slider right to zoom in and left to shrink the text.

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Choose how to align the text. Tap the alignment buttons at the bottom of the pop-up menu. You can align text left, center, even, or right.

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Press the AA button again. The dialog box will close.

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Click and drag the text. You can move text around the image.

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Tap Done in the upper-right corner of the screen.

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Tap Done in the lower right corner of the screen again. The text will be saved to the image.

Micah Soto

Update 21 February 2022