{"id":272052,"date":"2026-06-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/apples-new-ai-photo-editing-tools-mostly-work-for-better-and-worse\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:10:17","slug":"apples-new-ai-photo-editing-tools-mostly-work-for-better-and-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/apples-new-ai-photo-editing-tools-mostly-work-for-better-and-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple\u2019s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/949360\/apple-ai-photo-edit-reframe-extend-clean-up-hands-on<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-13 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theverge.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing features, and I don\u2019t think any of us are ready.<\/p>\n

As far as AI photo editing goes, the new features in iOS 27 are pretty tame compared to what you can do on, say, Google\u2019s Pixel phones. But for the iPhone, they represent a tipping point in what the native photos app allows you to do to your photos. I mean memories. I mean, I don\u2019t know anymore.<\/p>\n

These new features are part of the iOS 27 developer beta right now, so bear in mind that Apple may continue making tweaks to them before they\u2019re released to the general public. There are three, or maybe two and a half, new AI editing features in this update. The new Clean Up tool counts as half, because it existed before but was so bad it didn\u2019t really count. That\u2019s the tool that lets you take photobombers out of the background of your photos, and it got a major upgrade this year. There\u2019s also Extend, which lets you expand the edges of your photo using AI to paint in some plausible-looking filler. And there\u2019s Spatial Reframing, which mimics the effect of moving the camera around the scene to let you recompose an existing photo. It\u2019s the most ambitious and maybe the most problematic of the three.<\/p>\n

But first things first: Clean Up. It\u2019s actually good now. Instead of only using on-device models to remove objects and fill in details, it can now use more powerful models in the cloud. This is what Google has been doing for years now, and it\u2019s why the company\u2019s Magic Editor tools were miles better than the version Apple introduced last year. That totally on-device Clean Up wasn\u2019t very good at painting in convincing details to replace what it removed. It left weird artifacts and was generally more trouble than it was worth. Clean Up 2.0? It does the job.<\/p>\n

Using AI to remove stuff from photos is the generative editing tool that I\u2019m the least queasy about using. I\u2019ll use it to remove a booger from my kid\u2019s nose or take a…<\/p>\n

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