KontexVoX Help

Capture: take a photo, then describe it

1. Choose Capture and take a photo. Dictation starts automatically.
2. Describe what you see. When you finish speaking, tap Stop.
3. Review the text. Tap it to correct a word.
4. Validate description, or swipe the photo left, keeps the description in your session. It does not create the described copy in Photos yet.
5. Continue with your other photos.
6. Finish opens the summary. Check your descriptions, then tap Save to Photos: described copies are created at that stage.

To keep a photo without a description, tap Without description or swipe right. This saves that photo directly to Photos, separately from saving your described photos at the end.

Format (HEIF or JPEG), grid and level, and the timer (3 or 10 seconds) are in Capture settings.

The summary and saving are shown further down: Capture: check the summary.

Classic: describe existing photos

1. Choose Classic, then Choose photos to select the ones to describe.
2. Describe each photo. The microphone button pauses or resumes dictation; you can also edit the text with the keyboard.
3. Swipe left for the next photo and right for the previous one. The Next and Previous buttons do the same.
4. Add photos appends to the current session.
5. Check the summary, then tap Save: described copies are created at that stage.

Pause your work and return

Finish dictation before leaving a screen, and check that the text you expect is visible.

To find unfinished work, open History, then tap the action offered for its mode: Resume Capture or Resume.

An Exported ✓ session is a result you can view: it does not restart Capture.

If a session doesn’t look the way you expected, don’t delete it: email me first.

In pictures: finishing a Capture session and History.

Album and optional label

In the summary, Album chooses where copies are organized in Photos, when your permission allows it. By default, the album is called KontexVoX.

The Optional label adds to the copies’ filenames, for example “Apartment 412”. It is used for the filename, not for the description.

Your ten most recently used labels are offered, in Capture and in Classic. None is selected automatically.

Changing the label does not rename copies already created. After a partial save, the new label applies to subsequent copies.

Session complete: find your copies

After saving, the Session complete screen offers Open Photos. This button opens the Photos app; it does not go straight to a particular photo or album.

• With full Photos access, your copies are in your chosen album.
• With limited access, look in Recents: placement in a custom album is not guaranteed.

Check your copies before deleting any originals.

Avoid duplicates in Classic

Saving creates described copies. Your originals stay separate, so each photo now exists in two versions.

If Delete original photos is offered, it is optional and requires confirmation. It targets the selected originals and keeps the enriched copies.

Read the result shown. It covers that attempt only and may be partial; another attempt does not add previous counts.

If the action is not offered, check your copies, then manage the originals yourself in Photos.

On the Session complete screenshot, this action is marker 3.

Advanced export: copy text or prepare a ZIP

From Session complete, Advanced export uses the described photos from that session. From Settings, it uses the local KontexVoX Library, not your entire photo library.

Access depends on your Export Pro rights; a purchase may be offered.

• Copy for your AI puts the instructions and descriptions on the clipboard. Paste them into the tool you choose. This copy sends no photos.
• Export ZIP prepares photos, descriptions and instructions for you to share yourself.

Read the result after exporting: some images may be previews, and some photos may be missing.

Share without losing the description

WhatsApp, Instagram and most messaging apps strip metadata when they send an image, and the description goes with it. Use AirDrop, an email attachment or the Files app instead. The method: share without losing EXIF.

Export ZIP prepares a package that you share yourself; nothing is sent automatically: see Advanced export: text or ZIP.

My description doesn’t show on the photo

Check that you are looking at the enriched copy, not the original: KontexVoX never modifies your originals. The copy is in your chosen album (KontexVoX by default), or in Recents with limited access. The complete method: check that your photos are enriched.

To review the description before saving: Capture: review and validate and Classic: check the summary.

A preview is unavailable, or saving failed

A missing preview does not prove your photo is lost: the preview and the photo file are separate.

Follow the message shown. The app may find the file, find that it is missing at the saved location, or be unable to check it. A file being present does not guarantee it can be read or saved. Try again repeats the stated check or action; it does not recreate a missing original.

If the app clearly reports that Photos access is denied, review KontexVoX’s Photos permission in Settings, then try again. Limited access alone does not prove that a particular photo is inaccessible.

For a photo selected from Photos, check that it opens there. A photo stored in iCloud is only a possible explanation when the message and the situation point that way. A local Capture file error is not necessarily resolved by iCloud or a Photos permission.

Good to know: until the issue is solved, keep the text that matters to you in sight. If in doubt, copy it before leaving the screen.

The transcription makes mistakes

Speech recognition runs entirely on your iPhone: that’s the trade-off for privacy, and it improves with each iOS version. Tap the text to correct a word with the keyboard. Best practices: optimize a session.

Where to tap to correct: marker 1 in Capture: review and validate.

I reached my daily quota

Classic mode is limited to 15 photos per day without an account, 30 with a free account, and unlimited on Premium. The quota resets every day. Plan details, Capture mode included: pricing.

An exported session disappeared from History

Completed and exported sessions remain in the app’s History temporarily, for about 24 hours after export. This expiration does not delete copies already saved in Photos.

It also does not mean that unfinished sessions are deleted after 24 hours.

Forgot your password

1. From email sign-in, tap Forgot password?
2. Check your email address, then request a link.
3. An accepted request does not guarantee delivery: check your junk folder too.
4. Open the link on the same iPhone and in the same app that made the request, then choose and confirm your new password.
5. Once success is confirmed, sign in again if the app asks you to.

An expired, already used or other-device link may require a new request. If you sign in with Apple or Google, this does not apply to you.

Delete my account and data

You can delete your account at any time from the app: Settings → Manage account → Delete account. Your profile and sign-in account are then erased.

If you have a subscription, deleting your account does not cancel it: cancel it in your Apple account settings.

Your photos and their descriptions stay on your device, in your photo library. Details: privacy policy.

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