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Originally Posted by M_Six
I was playing around with the new measuring tool in a boring meeting today. At first I was wondering how I got a measuring app. I know I didn't download one. Then I figured out it must have come with the update to iOS12. It works pretty well. I pointed it at a standard piece of copier paper and it read the dimensions as 8-1/2 by 11. Not sure I'll have much use for it, but it might come in handy once in a while.
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I've been playing around with it on my iphone X for a while. The measuring is only accurate on flat surfaces or measuing in 2 dimensions. It has a lot of trouble measuring 3D objects and is often not accurate.
I tried measuring a box that is 8"x8"x10"... it came out to 5"x7"x10". Only the edge that was facing the camera was measured correctly. I tried another box that was 10x14x22.. it came out as 7x10x19... totally off.
So a limitation to be aware of... 2d measuring seems to work ok but I would still use a actual measuring tape to be sure.